Latitude 38 August 1988 by Latitude 38 Media, LLC

VOLUME 134, AUGUST 1988

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HOT DEALS NOW! Closeout on Remaining Inventory to Make Room for ’89 Models. NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED

USED Free furler, or cashback with new purchases. CS Yachts 30 • 33 • 36 • 40 • 44

Free gift package with brokerage purchase in August. Over 100 boats available, some examples below.

S-2 30. Aft stateroom, 1983.

Reduced $6,000.

CS36 Merlin. Two staterooms, rack and pinion steering unequalled Canadian quality and handling. LOADED with gear. Reduced $11,000 to $117,000. One left.

SCHOCK 34. Cruise ready. SANTANA 20 • 30 • 34 • 35

VALIANT 40. Excellent condition.

Was $116,000. Now $99,500.

PETERSON 44. Cruise ready.

NOW $86,000.

$78,000. One Left.

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Jerry Hansen

Win a Cruise!

Tim Carpenter doesn’t race his Islander 36 — unless, of course, there is another boat nearby. So while “Silver Cloud” may not be “beating the competition,” Tim’s new Cruising Spinnaker from Pineapple Sails has him passing boats port and starboard! Pineapple Sails’ reputation for building fast racing sails is widely known. Yet the care and considera¬ tion in designing and building racing sails are applied to our cruising sails as well. Whether it’s a Cruising Spinnaker, a furling jib, or working sails for sailing the Bay or crossing oceans, our sails are engineered to fit and perform and last for many years and miles. “Silver Cloud” is a shining example of a boat made better by Pineapple Power. Tim Carpenter is no racer, but he’ll be the first to tell you he’s ahead!

SILVER CLOUD*

DEALER FOR: Henri-Lloyd Foul Weather Gear • Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at: Svendsen’s in Alameda *West Marine Products in Oakland

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“No gimmicks, dancing bears or hollow promises; just good deals on great boats’.’ If you are considering a new or used sailboat you owe it to yourself to visit Passage Yachts. The reasons are simple. We are the largest sail¬ boat dealer in Northern California. We handle the four best lines of new sailboats available. With our volume we can offer you the best deals possible on quality boats that will give you a lifetime of pleasure. Why settle for anything less than a quality yacht from a reputable builder? We offer unique financing options as well as a variety of money saving programs, so you are likely to find that a new Beneteau, Mason, Passport or Pearson yacht is a lot more affordable than you might think. We have a liberal trade in policy and if you check around you will find that we have a strong reputation for customer service and fair play. So, if you are considering a new or used sailboat, give us a chance to serve your needs. I guarantee that you won’t regret it.

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Pearson 31 Pearson 27

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CONTENTS

Pearson 31

subscriptions 9 calendar 21 letters 33 loose lips 85 sightings 90 catapulted to catalina 108 tripletts abandon ship 116 '88 west marine pacific cup 1 20 mark rudigen ocean surfer 130 '88 singlehanded transpac 136 the red sea blues 140 discourse on dismasting 146 'saga'returns 152 max ebb 156 cruising the delta 172 the racing sheet 160 changes in latitudes 176 classy classifieds 186 advertisers' index 197

For sailing performance and livability here's a boat you'll be very proud to own. The Pearson 31 is a solid yacht with a huge interior, first class gear, and the ability to really move.

Standard Features ► Harken roller furling

Call for special introductory price!!

► Harken traveler

All new Pearsons come

► 145% Genoa

standard with a lifetime

► Mainsail & Cover

hull warranty and five-

► Yanrnar FWC Diesel

year guaranteed

► Hot water system ► Digital knotmeter ► Digital depthsounder ► Digital wind instruments ► VHF radio ► Varnished interior

COVER PHOTO: LATITUDE/RICHARD Bowman learns his lines. Graphic Design: K. Bengtsson

Also see the new Pearson 27 at our docks now! “A lot of boat at a small price!’

► Elliptical lead keel ► Elliptical rudder ► Pedestal steering ► Self-tailing winches ► 7 Opening ports ► Propane stove & oven

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Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

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StarCruiser HOOD’s high technology introduces speed to roller furling genoas. Our sail designers have used the high technol¬ ogy available at HOOD to produce the first roller furling-roller reefing Genoa to take advantage of the recent, dramatic changes in materials and the sailmakers’ art.

Computer Design Our HOOD/Net computer system helps us to design an optimally shaped sail and brings high performance to roller-furling Genoas. That computer system, using data on your boat and local sailing conditions, will develop a perfect design for you in just a few minutes.

Fabric The StarCruiser uses HOOD’s exclusive Laminar® Mylar laminated fabric, HOOD’s own dacron fabric or a combination of both depending on your requirements. A Star¬ Cruiser made of Laminar will maintain a “tin sail” shape over a wider wind range. You could even use your StarCruiser as a #2 Genoa for racing.

CAD/CAM In addition to computer aided design your new StarCruiser benefits from HOOD’s com¬ puter aided manufacturing. The CAD/CAM system cuts complex curved panels with a Laser. Sailshape is built into every edge of every panel; not just into the single shaping seam common with manually built sails. Laminar panels are first fitted with seam tape, then double or step-stitched for super¬ strong seams.

Hand Finishing Hand finishing is still a HOOD specialty, so you get a high tech sail from the world’s most sophisticated sailmaker, with hand details attended to by careful cruising sailmakers. When you put your boat in “cruise” you don’t have to leave the fast lane, call your nearest HOOD loft to get a quote.

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We regret that we cannot accept foreign subscriptions Please' allow 4 to 6 weeks for processing

Patented Hood head swivel uses stainless steel and Delrin " ball bearings for durable, frictionfree rotation.

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Headstay foil extru¬ sion is round for even, easy roller reefing or furling.

— Northern California □ We have a distribution point in Northern California which will distribute copies of Latitude 38. Enclosed is our name and street address. Copies will be sent via UPS at no cost to the distributor.

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Lower section fits over existing turnbuckle.

Publisher & Executive Editor.Richard Spindler Co-Publisher.. Kathleen McCarthy Managing Editor.John Riise Associate Editors.Rob Moore General Manager.Karen Bengtsson Production.Terri L. Wilder .Elizabeth Zerbe Marias Bookkeeping.Kay Rudiger Photography./.. .Sarah Wright Advertising.John Arndt ..-...Mitch Perkins ...John T. McCarthy Advertising Traffic.Suzanne Stennett Summer Intern...Doreen Russell P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966 page 9

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His and Hers Backstays . . . The Island Packet Double Vision The Island Packet 31 has two bow anchor rollers, two anchor deck pipes, two chain lockers, two fuel pumps, two fuel filters . . . You might think that Island Packet builders were seeing double when they got to the backstay. Why two backstays? Simp¬ ly because it makes stern ladder boarding easier ... a simple pleasure that now seems too obvious. Island Packet people know that a lot of simple pleasures add up to great cruising and a lot of simple features add up to a great yacht.

CASCADE 36

FORMOSA 46 Proven South Pacific veteran which is ready to go again. SatNav, vane, dodger and more. Cutter rig easily handled by two. Owner ready to sell. $99,500.

Virtually new boat. Roller furling, sails, Loran, hard dodger, all lines lead aft. Perfect for shorthanded cruising. Low engine hours. Asking only $49,500. }%<% :A;j|

FREEDOM

WESTS AIL 32 New Listing' This classic world cruiser sports a custom interior which is perfect for a liveaboard or gives you that homey feeling while swinging at anchor. Call for details. Asking $57,000.

33 Traditional lines and a singlehanders dream makes this a perfect shorthanded cruiser. Impressive cruising record with all the gear to leave tomorrow. At our docks. $69,500.

SANTANA 35 Get in the fast lane with one of the best, most active fleets now racing the Bay and ocean. One of the few competitive racers with cruise interior — Make a low offer.

CHKOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 Very popular in- * .it in ho out with ciiensne cruising inventory. A classic yacht with fine appointments and loving, maintenance. Ready to lease. Asking only $59,950.

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SELECTED SAIL BROKERAGE $14,000 20’FLICKA 13,900 21’ FREEDOM 12,900 22’ MERIT, with trailer 3,950 23’ AQUARIUS 14,900 25’ CATALINA 17,900 2S’ CUSTOM BAHAMA 14,900 25’ HUNTER 11,000 26’ SCHOCK PAC tntereiub 27’ H-27 Offers 15,000 17,000 21' NEWPORT 17,500 27’ SUN 43,900 29’ ELITE 19,995 29’ ERICSON 65,000 30’ BABA 29,950 30’ COLD MOLDED MULL 30’ ERICSON 27,500 29,950 30’ PEARSON 49,950 : 30’ PEARSON 303 (2) 19,000 30’ RAWSON 44.U00 30’ S-2 C Inquire 30’ WILDERNESS 32’ VALIANT 59.500 (3) 57,000 32’ WESTSAIL 3.V FREEDOM 69.500 33’ GURNEY Aluminum 54,900 19.5DO 34’ CHINOOK 34’ PEARSON 64,900 69.5(X) 35’ BREWER 35’ BRISTOL 59,500 69,500 35’ ... ■: 34,950 35’ GARDEN Ketch 35’ SANTANA Bargain

2415 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 521-1929

Northern California Dealer for Pacific Seacraft Yachts FAX; <415) 522-6198 page 10

12 Days, 10 Hours, 7 Minutes, 37 Seconds . . . . . . can be a long time at sea. With a gang of hoary deck apes ripening in the tropic sun, sea bags blooming all over the cabin, sail changes at every isobar. Ah, but on Puffin, the Freedom 36, it was spacious accomodations, full sit down meals, hot showers ... in short ... a breeze. San Francisco to Hawaii in 12-1/2 days of fast yachting fun. When you sail a Freedom, you sail anywhere you want, with only the crew you want, not crew you need, with comfort, style and speed.

MM 36’ CASCADE 36’ ISLANDER i 36’ STEVENS 37’ GULFSTAR 37’ TAYANA 38’ C&C LANDFALL 38’ HANS CHRISTIAN 38’ STEEL P.H. 39’ FREEDOM EXPRESS 39’ FREYA 40’ CHEOY LEE Offshore 41’ PERRY 42’ GARDEN Ketch 44’ CSY 44’ FREEDOM in Florida 44’ LANCER Powersailer 44’ PETERSON Cutter 45’ BREWER Ketch 45’ EXPLORER 45’ LANCER Powersailer 46’ FORMOSA 47’ VAGABOND Ketch 48’ 48 50’ 52’ 52’ 65' 23’ 50’ 50’

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49.500 42,000 29.950 69.500 79.500 76.500 110,000 79.500 125,000 79.500 59.950 69,900 1H5.000-Inquire 130,000 139.500 104,000 85,000

110,000

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125,000 99.500 125,000 129.500 S&S 250,000 STEEL P.H. M/S 240,000 CUSTOM STEEL 110,000 GARDEN/MONK 145,000 IRWIN Ketch Inquire FARR “Sharpie”, New SELECT POWER BROKERAGE 19,000 THUNDERBIRD 349,000 HATTERAS 365,000 OCEAN ALEXANDER HATTERAS Yacht Fisherman 450,000

BREWER

Very popular liveaboard/cruiser and this one is ready & equipped to do both! This beauty is at our docks and ready for your inspection. $79,500.

35 One of Brewers many great designs. Boat shows as new. She is outfitted to cruise and will turn heads at every anchorage. Call us for a com¬ plete inventory. Asking $69,500.

PERRY 41 Priced sale! Excellent making. Hurry to see * con

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TAYANA 37

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sailor. Volvo diesel, three jibs and spinnaker. Clean and ready for the rest of the season. Asking $19,500.

Sleek European styling with open, airy t. + 2 enclosed staterooms. Combine this w/graceful sailing characteristics & you have a yacht which is the pride of the dock. Asking $43,900.

RAMPAGE 31 Whether it’s fishing, fast cruising or diving, you want.a rugged boat built by skilled crafts¬ men, broad beam ll’l” and deep vee hull with pro¬ ven performance, so go on a Rampage! At our docks.

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2415 Mariner Square Dr., Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 521-1929 2505 W. Pacific Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92663 (714) 548-1422 FAX: (415) 522-6198 page 11 /

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Taswell 43 . . .

Tradition .TASHIBA Luxury .LIBERTY Performance .TASWELL Style.GATSBY BROKERAGE SELECTIONS

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE.

SAIL: 25’ ★ 26’ ★ 27’ 28’ 28’ ★ 28’ ★ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ ★ 30' 30’ ★ 30’ 32’ 35’ 35’ ★ 36’ 36’ 36’ 36’ ★ 37’ 37’ 38’ 38’ 39’ 41’ 41’ 42’ 44’

62’ 62’

★ AT OUR DOCKS FOLKBOAT, 1962 . $10,000 SAN JUAN, 1985. 14,900 CS-27,1982 . 26,500 ISLANDER BAHAMA, ’81. 29,500 HERRESHOFF ketch_ 24,950 SAN JUAN, 1979. 26,500 ISLANDER MKII, 1974 ... 26,500 CAPE DORY ketch, 1978 . 34,000 COLUMBIA, 1974 . 16,700 BABA, 1979 . 65,000 BABA, 1985 . 86,000 PALMER JOHNSON, 1972 38,500 ERICSON, 1969. 22,000 C&C, 1980 . 44,000 FUJI ketch, 1975 . 59,000 NIAGARA, 1982 . 77,000 PEARSON 365,1980. 59,500 ISLANDER, 1979. 57,500 ISLANDER, 1974. 44,950 S-2 11M, 1980 . 64,950 HUNTER cutter, 1981_ 45,000 TAYANA cutter, 1981_ 79,500 ALAJUELA, 1976 . 80,000 C&C LANDFALL, 1980 . . . 76,500 FREYA cutter, 1978 . 79,500 MORGAN ketch, 1978 . . . 85,000 NEWPORT, 1973. 69,000 YORKTOWN, 1984 . 60,000 CHEOY LEE, 1983. 128,500 S&S CUSTOM ketch, 1978 349,000 LAPWORTH sloop. 295,000

POWER: 30’ 30’ 40’

Representing a creative union between generations of boatbuilding knowledge and computer aided design, the new TASWELL-43 is the newest and perhaps the most revolutionary yacht ever from the esteemed TA SHING yard. Tatoosh Marine is pleased to announce the arrival of Hull #17. Unsurpassed Craftsmanship, Ex¬ traordinarily Sleek Lines and First Rate Performance are yours. #17 is fully outfitted with Roller Furling, Refrigeration, Generator, Custom Colors, ETC . . . Call Casey Jones for your personal inspection at (415) 232-7778. ★

★★★★★★★★

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While initially I was impressed by the exquisitely crafted teak interior, it did not take long to realize that there is a bit of sailing Beast in this Beauty. She has certainly exceeded every performance expecta¬ tion I had. My search is finally over, I could not imagine owning any Other boat. — Mr. W.J. McDermott, owner Taswell-43, Hull #7, ‘Ma Cherie’.

CUSTOM TUG, 1986 . . WILLARD VEGA, 1975 ELCO, 1948 .

$25,000 49,950 38,500

1985 BABA 30 ‘SILK PURSE’ This immaculately maintained yacht is absolutely bristol! Cutter-rigged with a wishbone staysail, she’s as pleasing to the eye as she is to sail. A perfect “couple cruiser” for $86,000.

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*Yegen Marine loans are secured by the yacht. page 13

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Our Price

$13.95 $39.95 7.20 15.05

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in stock and special orders!

2.5 hp — $460.00 5 hp — $799.00 8 hp — $1,005.00 Other models available

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The Ultimate Blue Water Harness. 4500 lb Breaking Strength. Lifting D-Ring for Halyard Hook-Up. Leg Straps & Double Lanyards.

List 159.95

$105.95

LIFEJACKETS & CUSHIONS

ABI BRONZE OR CHROME

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Special $650.00

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List $10.95

Our Price $6.95

Float cushions

$12.95

$8.49

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With full air service now restored to Loreto, Mexico, sailing in the spectacular Sea of Cortez has never been easier. And thanks to The Moorings, it’s never been more affordable, either. From our base in Puerto Escondido, you can charter a superb Moorings 37' 43' or 51' yacht for 25% off our regular charter rates* Same goes for chartering our new Moorings 370 twinturbo diesel convertible, ideal for deepwater,

off-shore fishing and cruising. No matter which you choose, you couldn’t find a more perfect setting to fish, sail, swim, or play tennis (at the renowned El Presidente Hotel & Tennis Ranch near Loreto) * Call us toll-free at 1-800-535-7289 and we’ll make all arrangements — everything from plane reservations to hotel accommodations to everything in between. Ole! OK! ‘Charters must be booked and fulfilled no later than December 20th, 1988 to qualify for this rate.

THE MOORINGS MEXICAN SAILING SPECIAL. OLE! OKI JJIThe Moorings The Finest Sailing Organization In The World. The Moorings, Ltd., Suite 402,1305 U.S. 19 South, Clearwater, FL 34624 800/535-7289 Outside Florida, 813/535-1446 In Florida or Outside U.S. page 15

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NOW IN STOCK_

9.000

RANGER 22 (2) CORONADO 25 from

5,400 14.000

70 INT’L FOLKBOAT (6) CATALINA 27’s

10.000

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12.800

68 SANTANA 27

CATALINA 42 Three private state¬ rooms, 2 heads, nav sta¬ tion, large galley, furling, electronics. $105,000.

MORGAN 43 Our 1987 demo is now available at a reduced sail away price. Balsa core construction and fine Morgan quality with VHF, KS, DS and more. $114,900

69 VEGA 27

14.500

'63 CAL 30

19.000

(4) CATALINA 30’s

from

27.500

73 FISHER 30

49.500

70 BRISTOL 33

28.000

76 ISLANDER 36

53.500

'81 CATALINA 38

60.000

77 CAL 39

76.500

'82 SWIFT 40 ketch

95.000

'85 NAUTICAT 40

185.000

'85 NAUTICAT 43

210.000

77 GULFSTAR 50

110.000

FARALLON YACHT SALES '85 NACRA5.8

4.900

78 BALBOA 21

3.900

79 SAN JUAN 24

9.000

75 C&C 24

9.500

'81 CATALINA 25

11.400

'81 CATALINA 25

11.800.

81 CATALINA 25

14,900

'82 CATALINA 25

11.900

80 ERICSON 25

12.900

'65 CAL 25

CATALINA

38.

Diesel, knotmeter, depthsounder, extra sails, clean. $58,500.

CATALINA 34. 1987. KM, DS, VHF, stereo, self¬ tailing winches, cabin heater, much more. Only

5.200

76 O’DAY 25

12,900

JEANNEAU 32.1984. Ped¬

76 CAL 27

19.500

estal steering, propane stove, main & 3 jibs, Com¬ bi knot, depth, WP, WS.

71 CATALINA 27

10.900

76 CATALINA 27

16.000

76 CATALINA 27

14.000

77 CATALINA

17.500

brokerage ‘34’ around.

79/ '80 CATALINA 27

NAUTICAT 40. The best in

CATALINA 27. 1978. Four

comfort & cruising. Full aft cabin, large PH, large galley w/dinette, guest cabin and 2 heads.

sails, VHF, KS, DS and compass. Traditional in¬ terior, Atomic 4. $15,900.

$185,000.

ISLANDER

36.

Perkins dsl, 4 sails, extra large Barient winches, KT-DP, WS-WP, RDF-VHF, large stove w/oven — boat shows like brand new.

14.500

78 CATALINA 27

15.900

'80 CATALINA 27

23.000

79 NOR’SEA 27

29.500

'69 ERICSON 30

18.900

78 CATALINA 30

26.350

78 CATALINA 30

24.900

'81 CATALINA 30

30,000

'88 CATALINA 30

44,000

'84 JEANNEAU '84 FISHER

44.500 109.000

'81 NIAGARA

79,500

'84 CATALINA 38

69.000

NAUTICAT 43

270,000

$53,000.

Coyote Point Marina, San Mateo (415) 342-2838

Farallone Yacht Sales

Mariner Square, Alameda (415) 523-6730 page 18

30’ - 50’ berths for rent on the San Francisco waterfront at the new South Beach Harbor.

★ Located one-half mile south of the Bay Bridge. ★ Direct access to deep water, even at lowest tides. ★ Locking security gates and 24-hour patrol. ★ Solid concrete breakwaters minimizing surge. ★ Dockboxes, water and power hook-ups. ★ 500’ guest dock. ★ 5 minutes away from downtown San Francisco

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Nonrace August 5 — Lecture on Modern Survival Techniques. Charles Trasher — great name for a delivery skipper! — will discuss heavy weather sailing techniques for modern fin keel boats, i.e., what works and what doesn’t. Presented by Ballena Bay YC and Horizons Yacht Consultants. No charge. Ballena Bay YC, 8:30 p m 523-2292.

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August 5-13 — Fourth Annual Tahoe Wooden Boat Week, featuring Tahoe YCs Sixteenth Annual Concours d’Elegance and the Fourth Annual Antique and Classic Boat Society Show. Knock on wood! (916) 581-4700.

August 6 — Fifth Annual Seafood BBQ Fundraiser for the Oceanic Society. Paradise Park, Tiburon. Sail over and chow down for a nominal donation. Chapter Office, (415) 441-5970.

August 10 — The Californian, the familiar replica of an 1840’s revenue cutter, will maraude the Bay in search of “smugglers and illegal contraband”. They will stumble on the brigantine Rendezvous, whose crew of “infamous pirates” will attempt to escape. After a mock battle, complete with cannon fire and crews wearing period costumes, the Rendezvous will be boarded and searched. Another case of misguided Zippo Intelligence? No, all these funs and games are to kick off celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Customs Service, which was founded on August 6, 1789. Paul Supply, (415) 363-1390.

August 14 — Second Annual “Nautical Stuff Only Flea Market and Swap Meet”. Co-sponsored by the United Way of Santa Cruz County and the Santa Cruz YC. Held on the grounds of Harbor

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August 26 — Free Admission to Hyde Street Pier. To celebrate Balclutha’s move uptown, as well as to show off the flurry of improvement that has occurred at the Pier, the powers that be have waived the $2 admission fee for the day.

August 26 — Women’s Racing Association Fall Meeting & BBQ. Any women interested in racing are encouraged to call Sandy Sheets, (415) 648-5530.

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August 27-28 — Aluminum and Steel Boat Festival. Oak Har¬ bor, Washington. The highlight of the show will be a designer’s forum featuring John Simpson, Grahame Shannon, Ted Brewer, and

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August 29, 1974 — Yacht designer Philip Rhodes dies at the age of 79. The two greatest yacht designers of all time are probably Nathanael Herreshoff and Olin Stephens. Right behind them was Rhodes, one of the most prolific and versatile designers of all time. Among his designs were the 11-foot Penguin (9,000 strong), the Rhodes 19 (2,000), the Dyer Dhow dinghy, numerous winning ocean racers (Carina, Caper, Barlovento), a 12-Meter (the 1962

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CALENDAR sold) boards to qualify for the Worlds in Florida in early December. This is the third and final chance to be one of the 12 Americans on the team — trust us, this regatta’s a really big deal in the highspeed world of boardsailing. Windsurfing Berkeley, (415) 841-9463.

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August 13-14 — FJ Western Region Championship. Six races at Frank’s Tract, on the Delta. Larry Weatherly — another great name for a sailor - (415) 886-0266.

August 17-18 — Frank’s Tract Regatta. Eighth annual overnight race/party in the Delta. Held out of Boyds Marina on Bethel Island. After Saturday’s race, the “river rats” will get down to the music of “The Flashbacks”. Lori Bauer, (916) 489-4255.

To help make things easier, the people who invented modern, practical, affordable marine refrigeration developed this short guide. It outlines four types of systems and their advantages — and only Adler-Barbour makes all four types. Match them to your needs and find the one just right for you.

August 17-21 — Adams Cup. Susie Madrigali will represent Northern California in the USYRU women’s keelboat finals up in Everett, Washington.

August 18-21 — Santana 35 Nationals. Six races and many social gatherings are scheduled during this four day regatta. About 13 Tuna 35’s are expected; borrowed boats may be available. San Francisco YC is the race host. Shelley Graham, (415) 865-3870.

August 21 — Day on Monterey Bay Regatta. Fifth annual fund¬ raiser for the United Way of Santa Cruz County. A race-ready trailerable sailboat will be raffled off at the dinner following the race. Santa Cruz YC, (408) 425-0690.

August 21 — Windsurfing Berkeley Long Distance Enduro Race. The 4th annual 14-miler on the Berkeley Circle. Open to anyone, about 80 boards expected. (415) 841-9463.

August 22, 1851 — America challenges for the Hundred Guinea Cup off Cowes, going up against 14 British yachts over a 53-mile course. The sleek black-hulled America, with her sharp bow and seriously raked masts, fouled her anchor at the start (races those days began under anchor) and got off the line last. Skipper Dick Brown and his 20-man crew slowly picked their way through the clunkier British cutters and schooners, showing excellent upwind speed. Ten hours and 37 minutes later, America slid across the finish line first. You know the rest.

September 2 — Windjammers Race. If you were unlucky enough to miss the Catalina Race, treat yourself to some quick jammin’ down de coast, mon. Entry forms available through YRA; for more info, call host Santa Cruz YC, (408) 425-0690.

September 2-4 — Hawkfarm Nationals & J/29 PCC’s. Concur¬ rent but separate regattas hosted by Corinthian YC. Both fleets will party together Saturday night. CYC, (415) 435-4771.

September 3-5 — Master Mariner’s Chickenship Regatta. Sec¬ ond annual Bay to Petaluma race/cruise weekend for the woody crowd. Bill Rickman, (916) 965-8656. September 10-11 — Fourth Annual Plaza Cup. Santa Cruz 50

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racing pn Monterey Bay. At least 10 boats are already confirmed. Sara Schmitz, (408) 646-1700.

Remaining Beer Can Races CORINTHIAN YC — Friday nights through September 2. Fred Borgman, 435-2777. ENCINAL YC — Friday nights in the Oakland Estuary. Summer series: 8/5, 8/19, 9/9, 9/23, 10/7. Seth Bailey, 786-6944 (days) or 521-4780 (nights). GOLDEN GATE YC — Friday nights, Series II: 8/12, 8/26, 9/9. Call the club at 346-BOAT. ISLAND YC — Alternating Friday nights with the the EYC series. Summer series: 8/12, 8/26, 9/16, 9/30. Seth Bailey (see above). SANTA CRUZ — Every Wednesday night until the end of daylight savings time. Starts outside the harbor sometime after 6 o’clock.

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1. The Moorings pays its charter yacht owners 25% of gross charter revenue. Guaranteed. The more we earn, die more you earn. 2. The Moorings pays all expenses of yacht owner¬ ship — maintenance, dockage, insurance, security, cleanup. Everything. . Owners receive up to 6 exhilarating weeks of sailing each year . Ovraers may choose to use their sailing time at any superb Moorings base worldwide, including the Caribbean, Mexico (The Sea of Cortez), The South Pacific (Tahiti and Tonga), The Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey & Yugoslavia). 5. Owners have the option of selling their personal filing time back to The Moorings for extra cash profit. 6. Owners earn 15% commission on all charter referrals.

7. Owners have the option of a 5 year program. 8. Owners who qualify may choose 5,10,15 or 20 year; below market financing for 80% of the pur¬ chase price. 9. Owner has the option of a guaranteed minimum monthly net payment. . In the entire 20 year history of The Moorings, we have never missed a payment to a charter yacht owner

To become a Moorings owner; or to leam more, call us toll-free or write: The Moorings, Yacht Ownership Program, Suite 402,1305 U.S. 19 South, Clearwater; Florida 34624.

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the hundreds of boats and thousands of racers and spectactors who participated in SAIL WEEK ’88. A Salute to the historic 88th running of the Vallejo Race. Special Thanks to the following sponsors: KRON-TV, Gary Radnich, Pier 39 and all the yacht club members and personnel who helped make this event a smashing success.

Carlsberg’s Next Event “The Race to Preserve Historic Ships A Tall Ship Festival at Pier 39. September 7-11, 1988 A week long tall ship festival celebrating the tradition and preservation of America’s great sailing ships.

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CALENDAR INC. SAUSALITO CRUISING CLUB — Friday nights, Late Series: 8/12, 8/26, 9/9. Milt Roed, 332-0700. SAUSALITO YC — Tuesday nights, Summer Series: 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, 9/20. Don Chandler, 331-4017. VALLEJO YC — Every Wednesday until the end of DST. 1755 start. Call the club, (707) 648-9409. WEDNESDAY NIGHT WOODIES - For any wooden boats. Starts near Richmond YC at 6:30. Free. 8/3, 8/17, 8/31. Jeff Rutherford, (415) 233-5441. WRA of MONTEREY BAY — Friday night series for Women’s Racing Association. 8/26. Sydnie Moore, (408) 429-8304.

STAY AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION.

Please send your calendar dates by the 10th of the month to Latitude 38, P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966. Not everything we receive gets included: items that are late or illegible, items that are phoned in, or items that do nothing to enhance the collective quality of life in the sailing community — well, those items probably won’t make it into our calendar. On the other hand, if we’re in a good mood that day, they just might. And as always, calendar listings are announcements for events that are free or don’t cost much to attend. The Calendar is not meant to support commercial enterprises.

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max current G7G5/2.7F 1221 1 IF. 1824 1 9F 0816--3.0F Hi 1 IF 1934/1.9F 1 0519/4.5E 1213/3.5F 1746/2.7E 2356/2.8F 0552/4.2E 1237/3.4F 1819/2.9E 0440/1 9F m: 14E 2248/3.4E

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SATURDAY 10 to 4

NORSEMAN 400

NORSEMAN 447

"From a sailing standpoint, I can't

terior. So clean and unused that we put in in our last boat show. Engine indicates less than 100 hours of use. Priced $120,000 below replace¬

find a fault: she sails magnificently in heavy as well as light breezes." "The interior is open, airy and perfectly laid out for both offshore work and dockside living." ". . . the builders have obviously spent a con¬ siderable amount of time thinking about all the little details that make an exceptional yacht." "Construction is top caliber." Chris Caswell, "Yachting"

PEARSON 37 Fast family cruiser, roller furling, spinnaker, windspeed, wind direction, knot, Loran, propane, well-equipped. Very clean. Owner mov¬ ing up. Asking $63,500.

1982 model, with the popular A in¬

ment cost. Asking $169,000.

CS40 One year old, absolutely like new. Superb Canadian quality with ex¬ tremely spacious, well-appointed in¬ terior & seperate cabins. Check out this top quality performance sailor. Ask¬

SANTANA 35 Super Bay boat with active one-design racing class,spacious below, fast on deck. Complete inventory and ready to go. Asking $55,000. All female crew included.

ALBIN 28 Take the family sailing I on this little beauty! Cockpit dodger to! keep you dry, diesel engine. At our I docks. Owner moving up. $26,000

ing $159,000

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1976 CAVALIER 39 Cruising equipped. Windvane, dodger, lots of sails, skeg rudder — even a heater! $75,000

DUFOUR 45

ERICSON 30 Comfortable family performance cruiser, well cared for, full1 canvas covers, spinnaker equipped, ready for you this summer. At our docks. $29,500.

Spacious, quality, fast

and comfortable. This yacht combines the best of French design and construc¬ tion expertise.

Asking $150,000.

Great liveaboardTl complete canvas cockpit dodger and I covers, custom interior. Only|

$75,000.

SAILBOAT LISTINGS

WYLIE 34

1979. Great racer/ cruiser. Locally built, new diesel, new stove and oven. Excellent sails, wellmaintained in winning condition.

$45,000.

LOA 20' 2V

MODEL LOCATION SIGNET SLOOP w/trlr FREEDOM w/traller

PRICES $6,500 13,900

37’

GULFSTAR

68,500

38' 38'

CATALINA loaded '84 C&C

59,500 76,500

75,000

25'

CAL 2-25 inboard

19,500

39'

CAVALIER

25'

US YACHT inboard

14,000

40'

CAL

27'

US YACHT inboard diesel

18,000

40’

NORSEMAN syndicate

27'

CAL 2-27 diesel

19 500

40'

29' 30'

ALBIN ERICSON

26^ 500 29,500

43' 43'

CS 40 C&C COLUMBIA

30'

ISLANDER

22 000

44’

NORSEMAN 447 aft cockpit 175,000

45' 45' 46'

DUFOUR FUJI PETERSON

30'

PALMER JOHNSON diesel

28'500

31'

PEARSON

34,500

31'

RUSTLER full keel

39 995

32'

SEAFARER

23^500

31'

PEARSON 305

58,900

32'

BUCCANEER aft cabin, dsl

23.000

33'

NEWPORT

48,000

33'

NEWPORT

48,000

34' 35'

WYLIE RAFIKI

45,000 58,000

36'

CASCADE

66,000

36'

ISLANDER

36'

37'

27,000

252/mo 159,000 80,000 75,000 150,000 128,000 150,000

tunity at $22,000.

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Yacht & Ship

57,500

15' 15’ 20’ 23’ 25'

POWERBOAT LISTINGS HOBIE SPORT HOBIE FISHERMAN SEA OX, new, no engine SEA OX 1986 SEA OX CUDDY with trailer

PEARSON

65,000

36'

MARINE TRADER

109,000

PEARSON

63,500

40'

PILGRIM

135,000

COOP, new

ISLANDER 30 One of the best brokerage boats we've seen. Mint con¬ dition, well-equipped, canvas dodger and covers. Ready to go. Oppor¬

$6,990 8,500 New 29,500 50,728

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DEFEVER 41 A trouble-free trawler

HYLAS 47 Popular Sparkman & Stephens design

built to top quality standards. Used very little.

designed for economical performance and low upkeep costs.

$219,000

$149,000

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MORGAN 38

HUNTER 27

CAVALIER 39

BRISTOL 35.5

Ted Brewer’s successful long distance cruiser; only 180 hrs onYanmardsl. $69,000.

The price of this immaculate diesel cruiser has just been reduced for quick sale.

Capable long distance cruiser; plenty of fuel/H20 capacity; large freezer as well as basic electronics. $115,000/Offers.

1978 beautiful, sturdy perfor¬ mance cruiser. Yanmar diesel. $59,000.

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CATALINA 25

PEARSON 303

ERICSON 38

HUNTER 36

Very popular Bay boat in good condition; equipped for over¬ night sailing. Offers

Top quality diesel cruiser in “new” condition. Built 1983.

Popular performance cruiser/racer, built in SoCal, 1984. This boat is in pew con¬ dition. Offers.

1980 model with dsl, 3 sails, basic electronics, hot & cold pres, water. A good liveaboard or cruiser. $49,000.

40’ 40’ 40’ 42’ 42’ 43’ 43’ 43’ 44’ 44’ 45’ 45’ 45’ 45’ 45’ 45’ 46’ 46’ 47’ 47’ 47’ 50’ 50’ 51’ 51’

55’ 57’ 60’ 83’

RHODES. CHINESE JUNK. HERRESHOFF . BALTICTRADER.

125,000 54,900 189,000 175,000

28’ 30’ 32’ 32’ 35’ 38’ 39’ 40’ 40’ 40’ 41’ 42' 42’ 43’ 43’ 44’ 44’ 45’ 45’

POWER BOATS CHRIS CRAFT.* TOLLYCRAFT. GRAND BANKS.* SUN RUNNER. CHRIS CRAFT. CHRIS CRAFT. OCEAN ALEXANDER .... CRUISE-A HOME. HERSHINE.(2) frm TRAWLER. UNISON TRAWLER. FISHERMAN. CHUNG HWA TRWLR .... GRAN MARINER. PRESIDENT. TROJAN. GULFSTAR . CHRIS CRAFT. TOLLYCRAFT.

12,500 79,000 44,000 45,000 43,500 154.000 225,000 60,000 92,500 90.000 95.000 99,000 135,000 75,000 190,000 179,500 185,000 178,000 159.500

SAIL BOATS 25’ CATALINA.* 25’ O’DAY.* 26’ CHEOYLEE. 27’ HUNTER .★ 27’ CATALINA.(2) frm* 27’ NEWPORT.* 28.6TRITON.2 frm* 30’ PEARSON.* 30’ SANTANA.* 30’ US.* 30’ YAMAHA.. 31’ ERICSON. 31’ FRIENDSHIP.* 31' HALLBERG RASSEY 94 . . 32’ OFFSHORE. 32’ UNION. 32’ WESTSAIL.(2) frm 33’ PEARSON. 33' TARTAN TEN.* 34’ O’DAY.(2) fern 34’ C&N FAST. 35’ CHEOYLEE.(2) frm* 35’ CORONADO . . . ,<2)frm* 35’ COLUMBIA .

$13,750 14.900 13.500 19.900 13.900 15,000 12.500 48,700 39.500 29.900 35,000 49.500 30,000 65,000 19,995 59.500 44.500 25,000 27.500 59.500 55,000 55,000 42.000 49,000

1070 Marina Village Parkway Suite 103 Alameda, CA 94501

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Asking $48,700.

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□ CAREFUL NOT TO POLLUTE I live at the south end of the Alameda-Oakland Estuary. A few years ago mussels were abundant, but 1 began to notice that there were few small mussels colonizing the docks and piles. Now there are no mussels and green algae covers the mud flats. I am tempted to conclude that something man has done has killed the marine life. 1 also note that the death of the mussels corresponds approximately with the widespread use of tributyl tin antifouling paint. I am glad that the paint is now outlawed. We sailors must be careful not to pollute the sea which we enjoy. Angus MacDonald Alameda Angus — Were with you all the way — except to note that we think people shouldn’t be even tempted to conclude anything unless there’s reason to. Tributyl tin may have caused the problems in your part of the Estuary, but for all you or we know, they may be the result of natural causes.

□ ANYONE INTERESTED IN A CRUISE TO JAPAN? In the February and March issues you had a story on Denny Jor¬ dan. One of the photographs accompanying the story included a photograph of Seaweed, which at the time was owned by Cyril Tobin. She was later named Moanaloa, and then about 1955 renamed Viveka by Bob Frazier. She sailed in the ’56 Tahiti race under Frazier’s ownership before being sold to me in 1957. Viveka is now in bristol condition and stops a lot of traffic, both tourists and photographers, as they pass through the Ala Wai yacht harbor. I intend to take Viveka to Japan around November of this year. I will be producing a number of television documentaries about the small fishing villages in the remote islands of Japan, villages that haven’t changed in hundreds of years. Anyone interested in a year’s cruise to Japan aboard a big schooner can contact me at P.O. Box 10114, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816. Capt. Merl Petersen President of the Pacific Ocean Honolulu

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□ GREECE IN AUGUST My wife and 1 are planning a delayed honeymoon in Greece. As part of our itinerary, we want to to charter a 35-ft boat for 4-5 days in the Aegean Sea. Can you, or any other globetrotter in the know, recommend a yacht charter organization in Greece or a specific area to explore? Are there any special documents required for such an endeavor? We are planning to arrive in Greece at the end of August. Mario Wijtman Redwood City

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□ NEED HELP AT A DEAD END While researching potential liveaboard/cruisers, I’ve run into a dead end on the Nantucket (Island?) line of yachts. Instinct told me to look through the back issues of Latitude for an ad or some reference to the apparently rare species. Having failed in that attempt, 1 realized the magnitude of the task ahead of me. Thus this letter. If you or one of your readers could direct me to a source of more information on the Nantucket 33 or 38, I would greatly appreciate it. P.S. Thanks for the consistently informative and entertaining articles. Of all my monthly mags, Latitude is by far my favorite reading. Philip Miller 777 El Camino Real #9 Burlingame 94010 (415) 872-2722 Ext 3426 Philip — The Nantucket name rings only vague bells with us. It sure sounds like an east coast boat to us, but perhaps one of our readers can help.

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LETTERS throwaway crews. They leave a lot to be desired. And Latitude was right about comparing the situation in South Africa with that of the United States and native Indians. Zero Tolerance? If you ask me, there should be Zero Tolerance for poaching. Joe Guthrie Pt. Richmond

□ SAVE THE RANGE A few years ago in the Alameda/Oakland Estuary there were range markers — one behind the other — marking a measured nautical mile. They were at the entrance to the Estuary and located both port and starboard. Today the markers have fallen into disrepair; only three of the original eight are still standing. And those that are left need refurbishing or at least paint. The people I talk to say they love and use the markers, but no one seems to know who put them up or who is responsible for their maintenance. If we could find out what agency to contact, several of us would do so — even to the point of donations. How would your worthy publication feel about heading up a “Save The Range Marker” drive? Or failing that, finding the agency to contact, I feel certain that we could round up a few people who would gladly set the markers and paint them at our own expense. Your magazine is the best ever, thanks! Charles Baker Alamo Readers — Does anyone know who is responsible for range marker maintenance?

□ MASTER MARINERS, BUT AMATEUR RACE COMMITTEE? Your coverage of the 1988 Master Mariners Regatta was great. Too bad the same cannot be said for the race committee. Even though my boat started properly, we were given a Did Not Start (DNS) by the race committee. The explanation? “We didn’t see you.” I have a hunch we were not the only boat “not seen”. The “official” race results declared that 37 boats, out of the 104 entered, Did Not Start or Did Not Finish. Even though it was a wild day, and even though some boats did retire early, that seems like an unusually high DNS/DNF percentage. Even more annoying is the run around I got from the race commit¬ tee. When the results were posted the night of the race, I protested and was told to speak to a particular member of the committee who had already left the yacht club. I spoke to him the next morning and was assured the matter would be reported to the committee and rec¬ tified. I spoke with him again later the same week, and he confirmed that he had been advised that the DNS had been corrected and that my boat would be given its finish position. He suggested I call the race chairman for that position. My calls to the race chairman, however, went unanswered. Finally, someone else returned my calls, but all she could say was “sorry” and agree that the DNS was “unfair”. Follow up calls to the race chairman only resulted in a response from the same person who said there was nothing she could do. Bad show, chaps. You pay your entry fee, get your boat ready, get your crew ready, start properly, risk limb and spar in high winds, finish well, and what do you get? “Sorry, we didn’t see you.” Not even a refund of the entry fee or a free T-shirt. Jim Hendrick San Francisco page 41

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□ NAUTICAL LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS My introduction to the nautical school of hard knocks started when I bought my first boat, a Bristol 27. The broker (Wave Traders, Sausalito, 1980) took off with the bank proceeds and 1 was stuck with a $12,000 loan and no pink slip. They said 1 better find a good lawyer. Shortly afterwards 1 had an accident ($6,000 damage to the other boat) during Opening Day on San Francisco Bay. I called my insur¬ ance broker and he stated that the company had not renewed my policy the previous Friday and he had not notified me yet nor had located a different policy with the money I had sent him. They said 1 better find a good lawyer. Then someone thought that they needed my outboard motor more than I did. The insurance company only offered $200 for a motor they had appraised at $1,000 when issuing the policy. They said I better find a . . . you guessed it. Having spent more time with lawyers than sailing across the San Francisco Bay, my mind drifted to those great pictures in magazines of drinking tequila with a beautiful woman in calm waters. I traded up for a Mason 43 (Blue Sky), headed out the Golden Gate Bridge and turned left for Mexico. After surviving the great storm of 1982 in San Diego where nine boats sank, arriving in Cabo San Lucas to see the remains of 29 boats that were washed up on the lee shore, losing the engine in La Paz, I decided that those beautiful sailing pictures in the magazines were fiction. I packed up my foul weather gear and joined Sailing Anonymous. I thought 1 had licked my sailing addic¬ tion when someone left 24 old issues of Latitude 38 (the best sailing rag there is) at my doorstep. Not wanting to support any more lawyers, fighting huge waves at 3 a.m., or paying monthly berth fees, I decided to find a boat that was trailerable, cheap, and did not cost an arm and leg when something went wrong. Someone turned me on to a West Potter 15. My dreams came true. The Northern California West Wight Assn, quickly turned me on to a boat for sale that was located close to me. I fell in love with it (Potter #629) and made arrangements to buy it. I read The Many Ways to Potter forwards and backwards and was ready once again to feel that sea breeze in my face. People gasped when they heard I was heading for Tomales Bay. “No problem,” I said. I have been on the seas many a day. Did Cy study the tide charts? No. Was Cy familiar with late afternoon wind which dies at a certain hour? No. Did he thoroughly check out the equipment on the boat and test it? No. The first time I launched the boat at high tide on a sandy beach. I had used this launching point many times during my college days where we carried light Flying Juniors into the water. When I was about to beach the boat on the other side of the bay 1 remembered on page 11 reading the advice “that a beached Potter with the board up frequently sands in, causing the board to become stuck in the up position.” Wise Cy put the board slightly down when beaching. I was feeling so smart. Then the tide went out while I was drinking beer. When we left, we just pushed the boat back into the water. We put the sails up and were heading out when I went to drop the board. Something was wrong. The board had come out of the pivot point. I tried everything but the board was jammed half way down. I made the decision to head back to .the beach. In freezing cold water we pulled the boat over to the side by using the main halyard. I didn’t know exactly what I was doing, but finally repositioned the centerboard by standing in the water and manhandling the board. Moral of the story: when backing the boat into the water, raise the centerboard all the way up so it will not come out of the pivot point. By the time I got back to the launching point, the tide had gone out even more. Oops. I knew I was in trouble. I backed the car and trailer page 55

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LETTERS down to the boat. The boat was loaded onto the trailer and my worst fears came true. The rear tires sank into the wet sand. After some thought I disconnected the trailer and managed to get the car up on higher ground. I took the anchor line and connected it to the rear bumper of the car and to the front of the trailer. Very slowly I pulled the trailer with the boat on it up to higher ground. Happy ending to my woes? No. The following day, being wiser, I launched the boat at a public launching ramp. It was one of those beautiful days, so I decided to sail out to the mouth of Tomales Bay. When I arrived the breakers didn’t look too friendly. 1 decided to head back. I turned around but did not get very far. I was going against the current. Right then the wind died completely. To my horror the current was at its max, taking me right out toward the ocean. No problem. I’d start the motor. On the first try the starter cord became jammed. Oh shit! I quickly got out the oars to do some serious rowing. On the third stroke, the oarlock on the port side ripped out of the hull. The previous owner had installed sockets for the oarlocks without any backing plates. What a fool I was to not check out all his modifications. Nearing the breaker, I pulled out the small anchor and threw it overboard — without securing the bitter end of the line to the boat. The current was so strong that it took all my strength to hold on and slowly pull enough line back up to secure it to the boat. Still, the breakers were breathing on my back. I was scared, but the anchor had grabbed! I took the top of the motor apart and made a mess of things. The spring popped out. Finally I calmed down and after many false starts, got the motor repaired. By now the sun had set. I got the motor started and made slow progress against the strong ebb. The whole situation was a little too scary for me, but I felt I handled it well. I had a life vest and safety harness hooked up during the entire time. It is really important to pay better attention to tides, weather and time factor. Whqn a situation goes bad, problems can multiply. Always check out all gear and start the motor before heading out. You never know when disaster can hit. I have had my share of hard knocks but it doesn’t stop me. My respect for the ocean grows each time I go out. The more I sail the Potter, the greater respect I have for it, too. It’s perfect for the shallow bay of Tomales. Cy Eaton Forestville

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LETTERS researching boats I remembered the Nonsuch 30 from a few races like the Silver Eagle, and how their crew was having fun while other boats — like mine — were working at making their boats go. We decided to take a good look at a Nonsuch 36. 1 called the two closest dealers, one in Florida about 400 miles away and the other in Maryland about 700 miles from us. After telling them that we were interested in learning about Nonsuchs, but that we wouldn’t be buy¬ ing for some time, the dealers basically told us to call back when we were ready to buy. I remembered Dave Vickland and called him in Alameda. He immediately sent us material on the Nonsuch. Then he did something I thought rather unusual for a boat dealer. He told me to charter one for a week or two in the British Virgin Islands before buy¬ ing it. He said if we liked the boat the builder would credit us with one-half of the charter fee towards the purchase of the boat, and if we didn’t like the boat we would have a nice vacation and save a lot of money by not buying the wrong boat. In December, my wife and I spent several hours with Dave going over his Nonsuch 36 in Alameda, with no pressure to buy immediately. We made our charter arrangements with Tropic Island Yacht Management in Roadtown, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The first week we chartered a 42-ft ketch and the second week we chartered a Nonsuch 36. We had a great time. TIYM is a business with a very professional and proficient staff dedicated to the yacht charterer. The yachts — 30 of them — are well-appointed and superbly main¬ tained. We had a great vacation on their boats in a beautiful part of the world. When we buy a Nonsuch it will be from Dave and I thought he should be recognized. TIYM works very hard to make your sailing vacation a carefree adventure and I highly recommend them to anyone going to the BVI. We will be going back to charter another Nonsuch from TIYM next spring. Ron Landmann Brunswick, Georgia

□ NOT THE NORMAL LUNCH CRUISE A group from the San Francisco-based American Institute of Bank¬ ing recently chartered a Hunter 40 for a sail on the Bay. Their plan was to sail along the Cityfront then duck behind Angel Island for a calm lunch. Well, as we sailors know, not all things go as intended. We were in the middle of the Bay about to tack toward the Golden Gate Bridge in 30 knots of wind when my first mate, Maury, spotted a fellow on a boat off our port beam hailing us by waving his arms back and forth. The boat’s sails were down and it was motoring east under the power of a very small outboard. The boat was also carrying a Japanese flag. What to do? We reversed course, made a pass at them, then heaved-to nearby to ascertain the problem. In broken English, the boat’s crew asked for the Coast Guard or Harbor Police. They replied ‘no’ when we asked them if they had a radio. Soon we discovered that the two, Yoshio and Akemi Aumanuma, had just crossed the Pacific aboard Shirahae, a 30-ft sloop. It had taken them 50 days to reach their destination. We radioed the Coast Guard to report the situation. While the Coast Guard had us standing by waiting for further instructions, one of our crew, Cindy McFarland, asked if it wasn t a good time to have lunch. Because we were hove-to and drifting east clear of any obstructions, I said, “That’s a great idea.” It’s amazing how tranquil it can be when you heave to with a single reefed main — even with 30 to 35 knots of wind. As the Coast Guard didn’t seem to be in too much of a hurry, we had plenty of time to finish our lunch. Finally, Fort Point requested page 59

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□ DUMB TO BE OFFSHORE IN A MULTIHULL My dad used to say that folks succeed by being half lucky and half dumb. I know it works in my case, and it certainly worked for Jan and Joe DeJulius who survived the capsizing of their 42-ft trimaran, Atalanta (March, pg. 136). The unlikely presence of survival^,suits is what really was lucky.

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LETTERS It was no piece of either luck or especially good planning that there was an EPIRB aboard. It is the one unskippable piece of safety gear and, if you are ever invited aboard a boat that lacks one, politely decline. If, as a result of their experience, the advice is to carry an EPIRB, then the advice'is unnecessary because serious sailors already have one. So much for luck; now about dumbness. It was dumb for Jan and Joe to be offshore in a multihull in the first place. It is dumb for anyone to be offshore in vessels that have proven, convincingly time and again, that they will go tits up in seas that a monohull would easily weather. Joe suggested that a sea anchor might have saved the boat. I am not so sure. A sea anchor is a tricky device that, even on a monohull, must be precisely set lest it does more damage than good. How three hulls react to a sea anchor in really bad conditions is hard to predict. My best guess is that with a sea anchor Jan and Joe would have been in deep cow chips even sooner than they were. Besides, J&J did have sea anchors aboard. Their anchor streamed off the bow on 50 feet, more or less, of rode might have been as effective (good or bad. ‘Ya’ streams your anchor and ‘ya takes yer choice’). Even streaming drogues

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LETTERS about this book, but few have read it. Every sailor knows the quote about, “messing about in boats” from this text, but here is another that may not be as well-known which I would like to share. The Seagoing Rat is talking to the River Rat about why he should change his lifestyle. “We shall break out the jib and the foresail, the white houses on the harbor side will glide slowly past us as she gathers steeringway, and the voyage will have begun!” . . . “And you, you will come too, young brother; for the days pass, and never return, and the South still waits for you. Take the Adventure, heed the call, now, ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Then someday, someday long

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□KIWI TIPS FOR ELIMINATING HEADACHES We haven’t been able to read Latitude 38 very frequently because our seafaring adventures have been either 'Down Under’, in the East, or the far north — until now. So it was with pleasure we read your June and July editions upon our recent arrival in Sausalito. I was particularly amused by the June ‘Heads or Pails’ feature. We could relate to it, as three years into our circumnavigation heads are definitely out with us. We, a farming family of five, departed New Zealand in June of 1985 aboard our 36-ft Sedlmeyer catamaran. It came complete with a conventional (well, sort of) head installed in the port hull. Because finances were somewhat strained near the completion of Catalyst, my father-in-law was always on the lookout for bargains on our behalf. I believe he found our toilet in the local dump or some equally dubious place. I’ve never seen one like it before or since, and it’s never worked satisfactorily from the word go. One needed the muscles of a weightlifter to pump it — which was all right for my husband who was used to milking cows and stuff. But it was somewhat under par for me and physically impossible for the children. I once impressed our doctor when he tested my right hand grip; but I didn’t tell him the reason for its unnatural strength. The antiquated affair had a long handle which bent in half with the strain of five people — plus numerous frustrated guests pumping it. By the time we got to Japan, it was a weird looking apparatus held together with bits of wire. It was about then that we decided a bucket would be more comfortable than constipation, but we opted to con¬ tinue using the head since the fastidious Japanese were watching our every move. Enroute to Alaska, though, the bucket came into full use. The pump finally broke and the diaphragm disintegrated. Although it was page 81

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LETTERS summer, sailing in the 35° Bering Sea was anything but tropical. So while the air flow was excellent sitting on the bucket in the cockpit, it was anything but warm. Frankly, the three kids refused, point blank, to expose themselves like this and chose the privacy of the closed doors down below. Locked and bolted, in fact. We spent a year in Alaska, living aboard in Valdez, which is at 61° N. By that time Dennis had decided he wouldn’t sit in the cockpit in full view of town either. So he hinged the conventional toilet seat to the hull and supported the bucket beneath. This worked well until midwinter when everything inside the boat, including the seat, froze. It fairly took your breath away. That January the boat harbor froze over with ice thick enough so an adult could stand on it. This new development meant we had to dig a hole in the ice each morning to empty the bucket. A bit like an Eskimo fishing. The contents of the bucket would disappear under the ice very nicely, however. When given the chore of emptying the bucket, the boys would sometimes not do the job correctly. Instead of going to the trouble of digging the hole, they’d fling the shit all over the ice! Then there was nothing left for us to do but wait for the next snowfall to hide the evidence. By May we had shoveled 35 feet on top of it. Then too, the kids were writing home revealing to all and sundry, “You know it’s cold when your farts freeze!” The harbor bathrooms at Valdez had been installed with apparently no thought given to the inclement weather. The toilet seats in the concrete building were solid steel and thus a hazard to tender anatomical parts. Alaskans are tough, but not that tough. It became a matter of head or tails and soon the bathrooms had to be locked until spring. We gave our head and all its spares the float test after the ice thawed, and continued on with our bucket. It’s a nice white one with a half-inch flat rim to sit on, if required. Originally it contained detergent to wash the cow shed dairy with, and comes highly recom¬ mended. Every so often I fill it with seawater and bleach so boat smells aren’t a problem as long as the one who dumps goes ahead and empties it smartly. In closing, I want to thank you for some great reading. Well look forward to future issues as we explore the Delta and California coast. P.S. If any of you intend to cruise New Zealand, please make sure you visit us in our hometown of Whitianga. Yes, it’s our own Mer¬ cury Bay Boating Club that is the challenger for the America’s Cup. We’ll try and reciprocate the fantastic hospitality we have received all over. You can even help milk our 150 cows if you want. Dennis, Jenny, Joanna (14), Matthew (12), Hamish (9) Folks — Another sailor who puts little stock in marine heads is Linda Newland, who skippered nine Club Nautique members aboard

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LOOSE LIPS Go fly a kite. Just when you thought it had all been done: a guy by the name of Dan Eisaman, who’s already crossed Lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie in an 8.5 foot inflatable dinghy towed by a kite, is now making noises about crossing the Atlantic in the same fashion. In the process, he intends to break his own record for the longest kite-powered sailing trip ever completed. That’s great, we hope he makes it. We’d like to meet Dan some¬ day and, over a few beers, decide for ourselves if he’s got an egg¬ plant where his brain ought to be, or what? Mainly, we’ve been wondering lately — where do poeple come up with ideas like this?? If not for the courage of the fearless crew. The following gem was culled not from The National Enquirer, but from the Chronicle: it seems those on-again-off-again Hollywood love bunnies, Madonna and Sean Penn, attended a Fourth of July party in New York Harbor aboard artist Peter Max’s chartered yacht. Lots of other brand-name entertainers were there, too. When the ship motored by the Statue of Liberty, the talented group — appar¬ ently stirred by the moment — spontaneously burst into “America the Beautiful”. Everyone, that is, except Madonna and her best friend, Sandra Bernhard, who refused to join in. They chose to sing the theme song to “Gilligan’s Island” instead .... Job security. The accompanying photograph represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It’s about as rare as capturing a shot of Big Foot, Jackie Onassis and the Loch Ness monster sailing a Soling together — or so we’re told by the crew of the Santa Cruz 70 Mongoose. Sure, it’s not a great picture and it probably won’t win a Pulitzer Prize, but even we could make it out to be none other than Tom Blackaller on the, gasp, pointy end of the boat.

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LOOSE LIPS retreating to his customary spot behind the wheel. However, those rumors about Blackaller looking for a bow posi¬ tion for the Kenwood Cup — or that he just bought his own Lirakis seat harness — simply aren’t true. Some guys get all the luck. Early in the summer, Jet Services, a 75-foot catamaran set a new TransAtlantic record of 7 days, 6 hours. That’s a phenomenal average speed of 17.2 knots for the 3,000 mile course! July 9, on the wings of that TransAtlantic record, Rudy Choy’s 62-ft cat, Gentry Aikane, left Los Angeles in pursuit of the 65-ft catamaran Double Bullet’s 7 day, 7 hours (12.7 knot average) TransPac record to Hawaii. Last summer Aikane was denied the record by a structural breakdown. This year the big cat held together just fine but was denied the record by a breakdown in the wind. On a record pace the first few days out of Los Angeles, Aikane’s shot at glory went out the window when mid-Pacific winds went light. Aikane still covered the course in under eight days, faster than any monohull. Choy says his boat will probably take another crack at the record next summer with his son Barry as skipper once again. They can only pray they’d get winds like Robby the delivery skipper got with the Nelson/Marek 45 Insatiable in late June. Shortly after leaving Newport Beach, the wind came up and Robby had to sail the IOR machine with just a storm jib and triple reefed main for three days. This was followed by a couple of days with a storm jib and a double reefed main. Sailing with just a delivery crew and never carrying a spinnaker, they made Hawaii in 11 days. The wind never dropped below 25 knots and was so strong the last 18 hours they sailed under main alone. It’s fun to think about how quickly Aikane might have made the passage with the same wind. Almost always able to sail at least as fast as the breeze, she might have been able to cover the 2,200 miles in as little as 4.5 days. Here’s to hoping it blows like hell for the Choys

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Golden Anniversary. Bill and Sondra Vaughan’s lovely 54-ft yawl Evening Star celebrated a race victory on July 17 in Alameda. Not your ordinary post-race bash, but more of an anniversary. Fifty years ago to the day, a one-year-old Evening Star won the Port Huron to Mackinac Island (both in Lake Huron) race. Designer John Alden was aboard for the race, reports a 1938 magazine article. It goes on to note, “The victory, which was a clean cut one, proved a great satisfaction to . . . everyone connected with the event, because the boat was not designed particuarly for racing.” page 87

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SIGHTINGS light at the end of the tunnel

as the cup turns Here’s the latest: Alexis is moving to Paris to be reunited with the son she gave up at birth; JR is playing hootchy-coo with Mussolini’s granddaughter; and Crystal just found out her long-lost twin sister is coming to town .... Oops. Wrong soap opera. The actual latest about the America’s Cup is that there is no latest. At this writing, legal rumblings are in exactly the same state as they were last month, and the month before that; everybody is awaiting New York Supreme Court Judge Carmen Ciparick’s ruling. In case anyone is still interested, that’s the

There’s good news on the horizon for the Coast Guard. If two bills that have already cleared their respective houses of Congress get signed into law, the Coasties will be get¬ ting a raise. That will mean, among other things, that the nine Search and Rescue x (SAR) stations closed nationwide due to 1986 budget cuts will be reopened. cont’d center of next sightings page

cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS as the cup turns — cont’d one wherein New Zealand claimed that the San Diegans’ catamaran was illegal. By the time we told you all the speculation flying around about why Judge Ciparick has not yet made a decision (initial appeals were brought before her in February), nor even set a date for same, there would be five new rumors floating around. A favorite — unofficial, of course — theory is that part of the last decision she handed down were words to the effect of “Here’s my deci¬ sion. Don’t come back. Settle the rest of this on the water.” Now that the matter is back in her lap, speculators speculate that she is purposely fudging “to teach them/us a lesson.” Some adherents to the theory think she should be nominated for Sailor of the Year. When the good judge finally does render a decision — which could come on or before July 29, when she goes on vacation — it will momentarily do one of two things for the contest. A ruling in favor of San Diego would mean that the racing should start as early as September. Sail America claims they’ll start defending the Auld Mug on September 3. Michael Fay says the 19th. Fortunately, the actual date is part of Judge Ciparick’s decision. A ruling against San Diego would mean no racing until at least May of 1989. If Fay wins, that means San Diego would have to scrap the whole catamaran program and defend in a 90-ft waterline monohull — or forfeit the cup. It also means Fay would have time to build a new, improved “K” boat of his own. The possibility for other countries competing would also come into play. We say “momentarily,” because whatever the decision, the losing side will undoubtedly appeal, hire yet more lawyers and tie the matter up in the courts for several more months. In the meantime, life in Camp Winnecuppa goes on as usual. Both syn¬ dicates are out on the water almost daily, tuning, practicing and improving. By August, New Zealand will be “in race configuration,” says spokesman Graham Coleman. Since arriving here in May, the mammoth yacht has undergone the following design changes: new, smaller rudder; new, lighter mast; new boom; new main; and new, longer bowsprit, bringing the LOA to 132 feet, 9 more than original. Sail America’s cats and crews have been steadily improving, as well. A new, taller, lighter solid-wing mast is under construction for the hard-sail ver¬ sion of Stars & Stripes — nicknamed 'W-l for wing, or H-l for hard depending on who you talk to. Though the soft-sail boat ( S-l ) is easier to control, especially when docking — W-l has clobbered the dock a few times — and slightly faster on a few points of sail, W-l is almost certainly the boat that will defend the Cup if any racing ever happens. Other than the rigs, both cats are identical. So, once again, the answers to the questions “Will they race? And if so, when?” will have to wait. Not that they matter that much, because the answer to “Who would win?” was answered as soon as San Diego’s first catamaran hit the water. In the expected conditions — 8 to 10 knots — either cat will easily turn “the greatest racing yacht built in the last 50 years into the world s biggest white elephant. Which of course is why Michael Fay is trying to get the cats declared illegal. According to our spies, the only chance the big boat has is if the wind never blows more than 3 knots or less than 20. Imthe former conditions, the Kiwi boat’s massive sail area and towering rig could well win the day. In the latter situation, it’s doubtful the sensitive Stars & Stripes could stay upright long enough to complete the course. But those are both unlikely eventualities, as unlikely as we’re beginning to think an actual race will ever be. In one way, that would almost be preferable to a humiliating apples-vs.-oranges “contest” that wouldn’t prove anything, except perhaps that San Diego had better lawyers. The pisser of all this is that both the viper-quick blue Stars & Stripes cats, and the stately, magnificent New Zealand are fabulous boats in their own right — and in their own specialized areas of the sailing. To us, they should represent the future, not the nautical dog and pony show this America’s Cup cont’d on next sightings page page 91

SIGHTINGS light at the end

as the cup turns — cont’d seems destined to be. At this point, whether this “race” ever happens or never happens,

In fact, those reopenings are part of the language of both bills. The House bill, which

everybody loses, and the ghastliest spectre of all rears its ugly head: going

passed by voice vote the first week of July,

back to racing for the America’s Cup in 12-Meters.

would award the Coast Guard $1.9 billion for fiscal 1989. That’s about $200 million more than they got last year. Even in cor-

reviving the weathership Back in the not too distant past, weatherships were stationed off the coast.

Vrected dollars, that would more than offset the now infamous $117 million 1986 budget

Anchored for weeks or months, they radioed what the weather headed for

cut.

the coast was doing, thereby playing a large part in forecasting. Later, when

Coasties to use about $4 million to open

satellites and computer models started tracking the large weather patterns,

those nine SAR stations.

cont’d on next sightings page

Plus,

the bill specifically directs the (Reopening the

40-odd other stations — buoy maintenance

page 92

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

reviving the weathership — cont’d

facilities, etc. — would be up to the Coast

weatherships played more of a confirmational role. Eventually, of course, the

Guard.) The two local SAR stations to be

satellites and number crunchers made the weatherships obsolete. The last

reopened would be Mare Island and Lake Tahoe.

ones off this coast were “put out to pasture” about 15 years ago. Bob Haulman, weatherman for KCBS radio (74 on your AM dial), revived

The Senate Bill, which was co-sponsored

the idea in a unique way a couple months ago. If you listen regularly to “The

by Senator Pete Wilson, passed the Senate

News Station,” you’ll know that Bob broadcasts the afternoon weather from

about a week later. It is fundamentally similar

the deck (well, cabin) of the “KCBS Weathership,” his Hershine 37 Shogun.

to the House bill, except that it requests

“I think it’s important if you’re doing the weather to be out in it,” says Bob,

rather than requires the Coast Guard to

who also lives aboard the single-engine trawler. “People are always telling me

reopen SAR stations. It also allots slightly

I’m all wet — but when I literally am, I think it makes a difference.”

more for the task, $4.8 million. cont’d center of next sightings page

the Bay, says Bob. “You go 20 minutes out of here and you can see fog in

Berthed at Ballena Bay, Shogun is ideally located for weather-watching in the gap at San Bruno, you can see it coming in the Golden Gate. You can see the Peninsula, Marin, the East Bay, the City . . . It’s just perfect.” Haulman would like to expand the boating aspect of the service. He already does marine forecasts twice on Fridays, and may expand to Satur¬ days in the near future. As well. Shogun (which may be renamed Weather¬ ship eventually) will cover activities like fleet week and the Big Boat Series from the Bay, as well as other waterborne news stories that arise. Bob has also offered to do public announcements for groups running activ¬ ities on the Bay, such as major regattas or parades. “I can’t guarantee everyone that we’ll get their event on the air, but if it’s got widespread inter¬ est, I’ll do my best.” The forum would also work well for getting the word out to participants about cancelled events, such as May’s Vallejo Race. The number to call is 765-4000 (Haulman also monitors Channel 16 on the Bay). At the same number, Haulman would also like some input on just what boaters would like to hear in regular reports — max tides? slack water? or whatever. What was the worst weather this longtime forecaster remembers? “It was six or seven years ago when they closed the Golden Gate for three hours because of 70 mile an hour gusts. By the way, a lot of people incorrectly called those ‘hurricane winds.’ They may have been ‘hurricane force’ winds, but they were generated by a whole different type of winter storm system.” Though he’s become a pretty proficient powerboater in the few months he’s owned Shogun, Bob also sails when he can. His last long trip was three years ago when he helped deliver Lu Taylor’s SC50 Racy II back from the TransPac. “Next time,” he laughs, pointing west, “I want to go that way.”

life beyond the pickle dish Believe it or not, the invention of the television remote control has had much to do with the widespread and ever-growing corporate sponsorship of sporting events, including sailing. Seems people use that handy (advertisers might say “pesky”) little device to turn off commercials. In the ’80s, more and more companies have been forced to go elsewhere to get their names before the masses, and corporate sponsorship has come of age. Curiously, sponsorship is hardly new, even to sailing. For years, we’ve had the OSTAR, the Observer (the London Observer newspaper) Singlehanded Trans Atlantic Race, this year renamed the CSTAR in honor of its new spon¬ sor, Carlsberg Beer; the Whitbread (they make beer and ale) ’Round the World Race; the Pan American Clipper Cup (now the Kenwood Cup); and on and on. Closer to home, Audi Sobstad Race week has become a fixture in

west coast sailing. And the west coast's own West Marine has sponsored or partially sponsored a myriad of events these past few years, most recently the West Marine Pacific Cup.

Weatherman Bob Haulman demonstrates redundant wind direction instruments: “Yup, the right one’s drier.”

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What is new is the number of companies actively seeking out regattas to sponsor. It’s growing almost weekly, a trend we see having a major impact in sailboat racing in the coming decade. That is not to say that everybody welcomes corporate sponsorship with open arms. Actually, the opposite seems to be the rule, especially with cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS light at the end

life beyond the pickle dish — cont’d

What happens now, according to Amy

longtime “traditional” events. Those organizers often spurn the idea of spon¬ sorship with undisguised disgust: “What? Ruin the dignity of our event with

Piskura

cheap hats and tacky banners? No way in hell! Of course, if you want to

office, is that a conference committee of

Senator Wilson’s Washington

donate a hundred cases of beer . .

That’s where organizations like Eiger

Senators and Congressmen will get together

Communications come in. Their task is to match corporations eager to

and compromise — in essence meld the two

sponsor regattas with Suitable venues. “A lot of people don’t realize that corporate sponsors don’t want to ‘run

's- both the House and Senate before being sent

bills into one. That must then be cleared by

things,’ ” says Bill Shaw, Eiger’s founder and president. “They don’t come in

the

President

for

his signature.

The

and say ‘Make these boats go here and you guys stand there.’ It doesn’t work

deadline is October 1, which is the start of

that way. Most of the time, they just put up the money in return for having

fiscal ’89, but you know how good Congress

their name associated with a first class event. From there, the organizers can

is about meeting deadlines. Still, the bottom

pretty much run things like they want.” But even those who feel sponsorship “taints” an event’s credibility would

line is that these stations could be back on

be hard pressed not to have a good time at one. “Look at it this way,” says Shaw. “Since the sponsor is paying for everything, the entry fees will be nominal — $1 to $5 instead of $30 or $50. You’ll have free beer waiting at the dock, and dinner at the club. You’ll have better service, nicer T-shirts and better bands at the party.” When necessary, the sponsor will hire a professional race manager. In the future, corporately sponsored regattas even hold the prospect of awarding valuable prizes — new sails, trips to Hawaii and new cars, for example. The Volvo Regatta in May proved that the equation can work. This event not only drew boats from as far away as Connecticut, it provided participants with one of the best times they’ve had as racers, both on and off the course. And Volvo (the marine propulsion division — that’s why we didn’t see a bunch of new cars sitting around) didn’t miss a trick. They even had Diane Beeston shoot the race and made her photos available to the media afterward. The next major sponsored event in the Bay was to be the Ultimate Yacht Race. It was scheduled for last month, but at the last minute was postponed until at least March of 1989. Carlsberg, one of the sponsors, still wanted to host an event. That’s when Eiger’s Bill Shaw and Rick Schuldt approached the Vallejo YC. “The” Vallejo Race, you may recall, was postponed in May due to the oil spill in the Carquinez Strait. It was rescheduled for July 30-31. The result of those hurried negotiations: For the first time, this year, the event and the week preceding was known as Carlsberg Vallejo Race Week. The week preceding the race, diners at Pier 39 (one of two “minor” spon¬ sors; the other was KRON TV) filled out entry forms to win a lunch cruise aboard one of the Blue and Gold fleet’s cruise boats. The 20 winning couples were ferried out to watch the start of the race in style. Why this angle? Part of the targeting strategy of corporate sponsors is getting people who are interested closer to the sport. Of course, by the time most of you read this, the race itself is history. We’ll cover it in the next issue. But if all goes as planned, though, Carlsberg will be back with a bigger and better Vallejo Race Week next year. In 1989, Carlsberg Sailing Week will kick off on Opening Day, run through the week with various events and the Vallejo Race will be the grand finale. In case you haven’t noticed, sailboat racing is in a major state of metamor¬ phosis, and we’re not at all sure what’s going to emerge from the cocoon. But we’re pretty sure that by the 1990s, corporate sponsorship of sailing regattas is going to be the rule rather than the exception. And it will include everything from the beer can series to the granddaddy of Bay racing tradition — the Big Boat Series. That means we’re also going to be seeing more logoed spinnakers, free beer and bigger prizes — and fewer pickle dishes, anemic fleets and half¬ hearted or cancelled events due to lack of bucks and/or interest. The bottom line is that we’ll also see more people having a better time, and that can’t help but be good for sailing.

an unsolicited plug “More boats sink because of old rotten hoses or seacock failures due to cont’d on next sightings page page 94

SIGHTINGS

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— cont’d

an unsolicited plug — cont’d

line by next year, and that’s good news by

electrolysis than any other cause.” That quote, which seems right on the

anyone’s standards.

money

Interestingly, public outcry and indepen¬

us,

was

lifted

out of the

latest Newswaue,

the

Survival

Technologies Group’s interesting quarterly newsletter. Having soft wooden

dent studies seem to have been the main im¬

plugs onboard, such as the kind shown in the accompanying photo, could

petus for the congressional turnaround. For

well save your boat, and maybe even your life someday. Offshore racing

example, a Contra Costa Sheriffs Depart¬

boats are required to have such plugs tethered to each seacock, and it only

ment report showed that their SAR workload had gone up 23 percent since the closing of

makes sense for cruisers to follow suit. A 1.5 inch through-hull fitting that blows out will let in 31 gallons of water a

the Mare Island Coast Guard Station.

minute; their .75 inch little brothers are good for eight gallons a minute. But

Now if they could just work on a bill to abolish Zero Tolerance ....

what’s really scary is the following: according to Newswave, a five inch hole two feet under a yacht’s waterline will allow 430 gallons of water in a minute! cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS all the bells

plug — cont’d And it gets worse — if the hole’s eight inches wide, it’ll admit 1,090 gallons. And if the same eight inch hole is four feet under the surface, the laws of physics dictate that 1,550 gallons will rush in. After that, it gets really ugly. If the hole was much bigger or deeper, you wouldn’t have much time to do anything but inflate your liferaft. Speaking of liferaft^, Newswave also regularly writes about those, too, as well as safety harnesses, EPIRB’s, lifejackets, and a million other aspects of safety and survival at sea. It makes for interesting reading. If you’re inclined to check out this relatively new publication, call 1-800-525-2747 for subscription information.

The largest sail training ship in the world, the three-masted Argentinian frigate Libertad, paid the Bay a visit between July 18-24. The massive vessel passed under the Bridge on the afternoon of Sunday the 17th, and then spent a week at Pier 45 while her 320 rpan crew (20 officers, 100 midshipmen and 200 enlisted men) travelled about the Bay Area. Her young crew (average age of 22) were treated to tours of the Stanford and Berkeley campuses, the Hewlett-Packard

voyage to nowhere — part ii Most sailors and admiralty legal beagles are under the impression that car¬ rying passengers for hire on a foreign-built hull is a violation of United States’ coastwise laws. < It’s not. Read what B. James Fritz has to say: “The (foreign-built) vessel could be used to transport passengers from a point in the United States to the high seas beyond territorial waters and I^ack to the same point, assuming that the vessel touched at no other coastwise point during the transportation and was not engaged in charter fishing.” Who is B. James Fritz? As Chief of the Carrier Rulings Branch of the United States Customs Service, which is part of the Department of Treasury, Fritz is the guy whose opinion really counts. The basis for the legality of the ‘Voyage to Nowhere’ charters is Customs Service Decision 79-415. We’ll have more details on this interesting bit of law in the hext issue.

projects Three different boating-oriented proposals are in the news these days. One has already been shot down; one is so new it squeaks; and the other — about the Berkeley Pier again — deserves a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. That damn Pier has easily generated more proposals than any other structure in history. Berkeley Pier — Requests from various groups for the removal of the outer portion of the Berkeley Pier have become the area equivalent of the little boy who cried “Wolf!” They keep coming out periodically but we’re not sure anybody pays much attention. The latest, a report recently released by the PICYA Committee, once again points out — quite rightly, we might add — what a hazard and an eyesore the derelict portion of the Pier has become, and how people could get really hurt if they hit the rotten pilings above or below the surface. In addition to physical harm, “The potential damages aris¬ ing from a tour boat or recreational boat colliding with unseen portions of the pier would prove financially catastrophic to the self-insured City of Berkeley,” says the proposal. Maybe. But in our opinion, that’s the only way anybody is ever going to do anything about it. San Francisco International Yachting Center — Mayor Art “the Ter¬ minator” Agnos nixed the plans for this one in May. The $40 million project was planned (and okayed by the Port Commission) for the now condemned Pier 24/26 area. Though the complex would have included restaurants, retail shops and office space, its main focus would have been as a public showplace and complete facility for visiting race boats. In other words, it would address the one glaring shortcoming of San Francisco Bay as a premier sailing venue for the top echelon race boats of the world. Maybe in the East Bay, next to the Missouri .... UC Aquatic Center — UC Berkeley’s Department of Recreational Sports has proposed a $5 million Aquatic Center for the north basin of Berkeley Marina. This facility would be “a prominent and central facility providing water-safety instruction, science and environmental education and recreation for all age groups and skill levels.” Boating-only programs would include boardsailing, sailing for the disabled, equipment rental, Olympic training and cont’d on next sightings page page 96

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headquarters down in Silicon Valley, and of

various boating programs of the University. The center would be based on the highly successful Mission Bay Aquatic

course the usual San Francisco delights. In turn, the public was invited to tour the

Center in San Diego, but would differ from that facility, and a similar though

26-year-old Libertad. Take it from us — it

smaller one now being built by Stanford at Redwood Shores, in that it would

was huge. Her steel hull is 310 feet long, 45

be open to the general public as well as college students, staff and faculty.

feet wide, and draws 22 feet. The highest of

(Facilities of the other two are only available to college people.) Estimates of

her three steel masts, her center one, is 180

20,000 to 25,000 people a year using the facility would indeed give it the

feet off the water. She can set 27 sails at

potential of being “the most comprehensive community aquatic center in the

once and displaces a mind-boggling 3,765

country.” At this juncture, the University has okayed a 6-month feasibility study and support has already started to come in from local government, youth pro¬

tons (twice as many as the United States’ cont'd center of next sightings page'

grams and the general public. If the University okays the study, due in January, the next step is to organize backers. Joint funding for the project is expected from just about everywhere — the University, the city, the state, the county, corporate sponsorship and so on. Once the money is lined up, the project can get started. Optimistically, that could be as early as fall, 1989. Remember, you read it here first.

most dangerous profession Quick, what is the nation’s most dangerous profession? Mining? Not even . close, though it’s in second place. The most dangerous industry is commer¬ cial fishing: 250 boats lost every year off our coasts, and an average of 75 people go down with them. That makes fishing twice as lethal as mining. These statistics horrified Peggy and Robert Barry, and made all the worse the loss of their son, Peter. You may remember the story from three years ago. Peter, a 20-year-old Yale student, wanted to add a little adventure to the summer of ’85, so he went to Alaska to work on a fishing boat. Five days after he signed on the tired old Western Sea, his body was found floating off Kodiak Island. The body of the captain was recovered two days later. Since there was no distress call, no one even knows where the Western Sea went down. Sometimes it takes tragedy to change the system. Since their son’s untimely death, the Barrys have worked tirelessly to get some order into commercial fishing, the last bastion of unregulated business in the country. Now, largely due to their efforts, two bills are before Congress that would re¬ quire fishing boats to meet certain regulations and have specific safety gear on board: EPIRB, liferaft or lifeboats, and survival suits. The House bill has already been approved and sent to the Senate. The Senate s own bill is still under study.

Olympic sailing team Californians swept six of the eight classes in the Olympic sailing trials held July 5 to 16. Ironically — because Pusan, Korea is expected to be generous in the breeze department — this year’s U.S. Olympic sailing team was decided in primarily light air at all three venues: Newport, R.I., Marblehead, Mass., and San Diego. The only Northern Californian to — predictably — top his class was John Kostecki in Solings. With crew Bob Billingham and Will Baylis, John did it like he has for most of the last few years: He sewed up the series well before the end and sat out the last race. Irvour estimation, having Kostecki on the team assures the U.S. of at least one gold medal. And it seems possible, judging by the performances of other winners, that this year s team could well top the three gold and four silver medals won by the 1984 sailing team. The rest of the California contingent were from the lower half of the state. Of the Northern Californians featured in our Olympic preview article last month, only Kostecki fared as well as we thought he would — though high credit goes to all our local contenders for making it as far as the trials. Pt. Richmond’s Craig Healy finished sixth in Solings, as did Bruce Edwards of Scotts Valley in Flying Dutchmans. Other NorCal sailors we previewed swept cont’d on next sightings page

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Olympic sailing team - cont’d most of the fourth place spots: Pam Poletti of Ross, crewing for Sue

training vessel, the 295-foot Eagle).

Blackman in the womens’ 470; Santa Rosa’s Paul Bussard and Milton Close

don’t let the heavy metal image fool you —

But

in Tornados; Ted Huang of Los Altos in Sailboards; and Paul Cayard (of San

this baby will get up and boogie. The Liber-

Diego officially, but a Bay Area native) in Stars.

tad's top speed is 18 knots, and her 1966 record for the fastest crossing of the North

The most disappointing performance — for them, anyway — had to have

Atlantic under sail (8 days,- 12 hours from

been Brady and Bryant-Sih’s in the mens’ 470s. The young Novato brothers

V Cape

(Brady’s 18, Bryant’s 21) could only manage a 10th in the series. But they

Race,

Canada,- to

Liverpool)

still

stands. The Buenos Aires based training vessel

gained valuable experience against world-class competition that will stand them in good stead in 1992. On the other end of the scale, a special “Well done” goes to John Shad-

most recently was in Monterey, where she

den and Charlie McKee of Long Beach who annihilated the competition in

spent a few days relaxing after arriving from Acapulco. Lt. Joe Murphy, a public relations

470s with the most impressive record of any of the eight classes. They bulleted six of their seven counting races, and got second on the seventh. In the Olympic scoring system — finishes better than sixth are given increased credit — Shadden and McKee earned a grand total of three points. TJie second place Finn finishers had 35.4 points. We haven’t forgotten Tiburon’s Russ Silvestri. On the comeback trail after a messy legal battle eliminated him from the 1984 team, Russ went into the trials as one of the favorites in the Finn class. Though he took a disappointingfourth in very tough competition at Marblehead, he was picked as a team

alternate, so he will be going to Pusan. Here are the members of the 1988 U.S. Olympic Sailing Team, where they

raced,

and

their

total

point

scores.

Skippers

are

listed

first.

Congratulations to them all. 470 WOMEN (Newport) — Allison Jolly (Valencia, CA) and Lynne Jewell (Newport, Rl); 17.7. (14 boats; 8 races/1 throwout) 470 MEN (Newport) — John Shadden (Long Beach, CA) and Charlie McKee (Long Beach, CA); 3 pts. (25 boats; 8 races/1 throwout). TORNADO (Newport) — Pete Melvin (Long Beach, CA) and Pat Muglia (San Diego, CA); 3.6 pts. (25 boats; 7 races/1 throwout) FLYING DUTCHMAN (Newport) — Paul Foerster (Corpus Christi, TX) and Andrew Goldman (Greenwich, CT); 18.7 pts. (10 boats, 7 races/1 throwout) DIVISION II SAILBOARD (Newport) — Mike Gebhardt (Ft. Walton Beach, FL); 27 pts. (45 boats; 7 races/1 throwout) FINN (Marblehead) — Brian Ledbetter (San Diego); 14.4 pts. (42 boats; 8 races/1 throwout) SOLING (San Diego) — John Kostecki (Alameda), Bob Billingham (Greenbrae) and Will Baylis (Carmel); 25.8 pts. (22 boats; 10 races/1 throwout) STAR (San Diego) — Mark Reynolds (San Diego) and Hal Haenel (Hollywood, CA); 46.8 pts. (29 boats; 10 races/1 throwout)

things that float you No, it’s not a Double Jeopardy category. We just weren’t sure you’d know what the heck we were talking about if we said “Near-Shore Bouyant vest” or “Type V Hybrid Device.” Those are but two of the Coast Guard’s new designations for what we’ve come to know and love/hate as PFDs — personal flotation devices. The new names are intended to offer consumers of PFDs more definitive information about what to expect of each jacket, including advantages and disadvantages. The information will be available soon in a colorful Coast Guard pamphlet available free at marine outlets. Here’s a quick look at Types I through V PFDs. Type / — Now called the “Off-Shore Life Jacket,” this is the bulky “Mae West" type kapok jacket. It is still the best for floating you, but is uncomfortable to stow and wear. Type II — The “Near-Shore Bouyant Vest” is the three-section, bloeky orange thing almost all of us have stowed aboard and never used. Type III — The “Flotation Aid" type PFDs are the most commonly worn in recreational boating. They include both the compact and comfortable Type III vests and float coats. Their disadvantage is that they don’t float you high, nor always face-up. Type IV — “Throwable Devices” are life rings and floating cushions, cont'd on next sightings page page 98

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officer with our Navy, got to go along for the quick ride up the coast, and he fairly bubbled over with enthusiasm about the opportunity. “When I was a kid, I used to make little wooden boats that looked like this. Who would have ever thought I’d actually get to sail on one?" he said. What impressed Mur¬ phy the most, other than the sheer size of everything, was the system of communica¬ tion used to operate the gigantic craft. “The chief bosun would signal his desires

Type V — This has become the catchall category for floation devices that don’t fit anywhere else. Included in “Special Use Devices” and “Type V Hybrid Device” (both are type V) are the new — and promising looking — inflatable coats and vests. Incidentally, for a terrific report on Type III vests, pick up a July issue of Consumer Reports if you can still find one. In addition to the highly entertain¬ ing crucifixion of the Suzuki Samurai, this issue of CM uncovers some sur¬ prising, and potentially dangerous, quirks about Type III vests and the “tests” they must pass. We don’t have space to regurgitate the whole thing, but we’ll tell you the three top-rating vests were the America’s Cup 100W, the Mustang MV3114 and the Omega Pullover PV-50. The article is well worth your time if you’re interested in the best Type Ills.

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SIGHTINGS welcome home Peter Jackson, a 46-year-old jewelery maker, has lived south of the border, most recently in Puerto Vallarta, with his family on their Hans Chris¬ tian 38 Nyapa for the last ten years. Recently, they returned to the States for the first time in several years. A LJ.S. citizen who was raised in England, the soft-spoken Jackson and his family are what you might call citizens of the world: his three sons, ages 15, 11, and 3 were born in Denmark, Ecuador and the Amazon respectively. He was returning to the States to try to trade up to a larger boat — the family having outgrown their current home — and because his wife, Carol, originally from Los Angeles, needed a bit of medical care.

all the bells and via bosun’s pipe to each of three bosun’s mates, one at each mast,” explained Mur¬ phy. “They, in turn, would use their pipes to signal up their mast what the sailors in each yard were to do with the sails. It’s like a phone system where you dial an area code, ^ followed by a prefix, and then actual numbers. I think there are 30 or 40 tones the sailors need to listen for, all of which evoke

day on The Fifth Annual “Day on Monterey Bay” Regatta and swap meet is on for midAugust, and if you like boats and boating, it’s a don’t miss event. Kicking off the event on August 14 is the “Nautical Stuff Only Flea Market and Swap Meet” at Harbor Marine (495 Lake Avenue) in Santa Cruz Harbor. The swap meet goes from 8 in the morning until 2, and features — in addition to everything you’ll ever want or need for your boat — live music, hot food and cold drinks. A week later, get on your seaboots, cause

The 'Nyapa' seizure: "A complete waste of time and money."

They pulled into the customs dock in San Diego on the morning of July 5th, just as returning yachts are required to do. Then, the nightmare started. The following is Jackson’s account, quite abbreviated, of what happened next. “In a nutshell, they detained us at the dock for ten hours and then just took our boat away and put us out on the street. They claim they found drug residue in a seashell that was part of our collection,” said Jackson, who claims his boat was clean and that, for that matter, he’d barely heard of Zero Tolerance while in Mexico. He stood by in disbelief as several rounds of customs agents, complete with drug-sniffing dogs, went through every inch of his boat. “At first they wouldn’t even tell me why my boat was being seized,” said an angry Jackson, “They just (old us to get our stuff together and get off. How do you unload ten years of your life into a few backpacks and bags?” Appar¬ ently, they wouldn’t even allow him to call a lawyer, but for some reason, right as things were really hitting the ditch (“They kept saying, ‘I’m just doing my job’. It was like Germany in the ’30’s.”), a more reasonable customs agent came on the scene, and started to try to return the Jackson’s boat to them. After two-and-a-half days of the red-tape runaround, the boat was finally returned, with no explanations or apologies. Jackson, already rightfully steamed about having to stay in a motel for that time, couldn’t believe what happened next: to get his boat back, he had to pay a boatyard — which shall remain unnamed — $640 for towing his boat from the customs dock and storing it. “The boat was a mess — my cat, which we left on the boat, was gone, my windsurfer mast was gone, and who knows what else,” claimed Jackson, who likened the “repo men” to volunteer SS troops. “I demanded an itemized receipt, so I could know what I was supposedly paying for, and the owner of the yard threatened me and then called the police on me,” said Jackson, “They were incredibly nasty people.” To make a long story short, Jackson paid and left San Diego, somewhere over a thoucont'd on next sightings page

what do Assemblyman Pat Nolan of Glendale was aboard the City of San Francisco on the Bay for a Governor Deukmejian $300 a head fund-raiser last month when he learned his wife had gone into labor. According to Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, “a hastily summoned Coast Guard cutter” appeared to whisk him to shore. Were all for husbands being with their wives during the birth of children, but since when does an assemblyman rate such regal service from a branch of government that

shell According to our expert, Derek “Wildcat” Crude, oil and boats don’t mix. He was on hand to assess the April oil spill in Carquinez Straight, and to give us some perspective on how it affected the boating community there. Wildcat gave us a perspective all right. Un¬ fortunately, it is unprintable in a fine family publication such as this. (Wildcat’s language, cultivated for years on oil rigs, is quite color¬ ful.) Once censored for prime time by our team of Nebraska school marms, his analysis goes something like this. Oil ruins bottom paint. It chemically neutralizes the toxicity. Plus, crude oil royally f—s up topsides. (Sorry, in this case, no page i oo

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welcome home — cont’d

various Pavlovian responses. There’s hardly any talking on board.” Next stop on the Libertad’s 1988 world tour

Honolulu.

Sadly,

the

sand dollars poorer for what he describes as a “terrifying” invasion of his family’s privacy. “My three-year-old son, Gareth, still wakes up every morn¬ ing and asks, ‘Pop, are those guys going to take away our boat today?’ ”

otherwise

He was heading up to Ventura, looking forward to getting his business

gracious Argentinians forgot to invite Lt. Murphy — as well as us — on the downwind

done quickly and then getting back to Mexico and points south. “I hope I never see San Diego again,” said Jackson.

ride. How much fun could you have without spinnakers anyway?

nalia” on Jackson’s boat, though they declined to be more specific. They say

Customs agents in San Diego claim they found “residue and parapher¬ they impounded the boat while deciding what to do next, but released it when they determined there wasn’t “sufficient evidence to press charges.” “What a complete waste of their time and my money,” said a still angry Jackson.

monterey bay here comes the “Day on Monterey Bay” Regatta on August 21. Last year, more than 100 boats participated, and more than 850 hungry sailors decimated the steak dinner that followed. As in past years, a race-ready Moore 24, complete with trailer, will be raffled off at the dinner. The $35 entry fee per boat, and $15 per person per dinner fees all go to a good cause — the United Way of Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz YC co-sponsors. For more infor¬ mation, call (408) 688-2082.

peace navy We’ve all seen them, the mini flotillas of boats decorated with peace signs and banners proclaiming “No Nukes.” The boats of San Francisco’s Peace Navy are especially visible during the fleet week festivities, where their presence is a symbolic (and occasionally literal) wrench in the gears of the military chest pounding. Until we saw the political satire on nuclear power on the submarine mockup shown here, we have to admit we really didn’t know much else about the Peace Navy. But not much of importance escapes them. Formed in 1983, the Peace Navy now boasts 125 members, and at least that many vessels. The people range in age from 10 to 82; and in profession from carpenter to architect; from yacht broker to clinical psychologist. The boats range in size from kayaks to the organization’s flagship, the 50-ft Saturna. The Peace Navy’s “Disarming Skit,” which took place on Memorial Day off the promenade in Sausalito, is only part of what the group is all about. They

you think

started in ’83 supporting those who were trying to ban arms shipments

has had to terminate life-saving services to the general citizenry because of budget cuts? Do you think the Coast Guard would have

through Port Chicago. These days, they may be involved in supporting anti¬ apartheid demonstrations; backing up union struggles; or opposing offshore drilling with their fleet. They often coordinate events in and out of the area

come running out to get you if t^our wife had

with similar groups, such as Greenpeace. The two biggest events of the year for the Peace Navy are the aforemen¬

gone into labor? Do you think Nolan could have waited the

tioned fleet week, in October, and the Disarm the Seas Week, a worldwide

extra couple of minutes it would have taken for the City of San Francisco itself to reach

week of protests and demonstrations aimed at keeping the oceans free and unspoiled. The “Disarming Skit” was part of the latter.

shore? Do you think the Coast Guard is getting its priorities screwed up?

shells out word

remember,

works.)

case

you

don’t

180,000 gallons of San Juan

LATITUDE/RICHARD

other

crude spread from Porta Costa to Ryer Island — about 10 miles — in what oil guys like Wildcat call a “number three sheen,” the worst type. Anyway, as we reported last month, Shell Oil,

the

“spiller,”

promised

pay the

“spillees” reparations for damage to hulls and bottom paint. As you read this, about

The Peace Navy’s ‘Disarming Skit'.

400 boats have been identified by marine

In case you missed it, the skit depicts the Peace Navy’s continuing concern

surveyors as needing haulouts and new bot¬

that the vast increases in nuclear arms at sea will multiply the potential

toms. Most are from the Martinez Marina,

dangers. They maintain that even a “simple” fire involving a nuclear warhead

which was closest to the spill. True to their

containing plutonium would result in a panoply of events including many

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SIGHTINGS shell shells

peace navy — cont’d deaths, severe illnesses and contamination on a vast scale that would

word,

Shell

has begun

reimbursing boat

continue for generations. The skit was an effort to alert people to the danger and to inform them, via

owners for their yard bills. Wildcat wasn’t all that impressed. “You

a leaflet handed out, that there will be no plans to deal with such an event

want a real oil story? he asked. Then he told

because the existence of a plan would be a tacit admission by the Navy that its

say, isn't that

ships have nuclear weapons. The Peace Navy’s view is that this refusal “to confirm or deny” the .

.To our way of thinking, there are precious

presence of nuclear material aboard its vessels is irresponsible of the Navy

few good sight gags in this increasingly grim

and the consequences of such policy potentially disastrous. Its opposition to the stationing of the Missouri and 16 additional warships

world. One delightful exception is the ‘Miami Vice’ vice on display on a dock box at

in the Bay also reflects that concern, as well as another: that the militarization of the Bay will lead to “projection of Naval power,” the gunboat diplomacy

Honolulu’s Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.

that the Peace Navy opposes, even though it doesn’t oppose the peacetime activities of the Navy. That the Peace Navy has been gaining momentum is evident in both their number, and in fledgling “flotillas” springing up in Monterey, San Diego and even New York City. They’ve also gained a certain share of notoriety. In 1985. members Bob Heifitz and Tom Caufield were part of a religious pacifist group, Witness for Peace, that went to Nicaragua to help form a demilitarized, zone between that country and Costa Rica. You may remember fhe headlines: they were captured by the Contras and held for about a day anda-half. Two boats from the Bay will sail back to Nicaragua starting in November, to bring food and clothing to the victims of that war-torn country as a gesture of “citizen diplomacy.” If you’re interested in donating, or interested in any facet of this unique and dedicated group of boaters, you can call Bob Heifitz at 398-1201.

clear as mud The problem is mud, or if you like, “siltation.” That’s what the experts call the stuff that builds up on the bottoms of_our bays and harbors, necessitating dredging every two or three years. Since there is more siltation these days, that means more dredging, which means more money from boaters. (The Corps of Engineers keep the main ship channels dredged from taxpayer money; private marinas must pay for dredging themselves.) Since organized groups like fishermen and environmentalists are fighting the dumping of dredgitritous — our word, but doesn’t it sound great? — off Alcatraz, that means even more money to tow it out to sea for dumping. That jump could be from the current $3 a cubic foot to $5 a cubic foot. If all this is as clear as, well, siltation, a little background: 90 percent of the siltation in this and any other harbor in the country comes from runoff. Our Bay is still receiving large amounts of mud from the heavy storms of February 1986. Paradoxically, perhaps, 60 percent of the fresh water that used to come into the Bay has been diverted to other uses such as irrigation. It may sound like less runoff means less sediment, but in actual fact, it means less natural flushing of the Bay, and the resultant depositing of even more siltation. At least that’s one theory. The question recreational boaters face, at least the one that stood out at a seminar in mid-May, is whether boaters are totally responsible for the removal and ocean dumping of this stuff. Many think they shouldn’t be. citing the fact that it is very likely someone else’s fault that there is more silta¬ tion than ever these days. Besides, they argue, the millions paid in fuel taxes every year ought to be more than enough to pay for dredging. Since the seminar was meant to inform rather than decide, no great solu¬ tions came out of it. It was apparent, however, that boaters will have to organize locally if they want a say in matters like this. Yeah, the thought of politics befouling our sport is repugnant, but so is having to pay almost dou ble for dredging just so we won’t disturb a few fish

The fact is, both the

fishermen and environmentalists are well organized and have a powerful contd on next sightings page

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us about being a crewman on the tanker

voice. If we don’t want to end up with the muddy — and expensive — end of

Ohio trying to get oil to Malta during World

the stick, we may have to do the same.

War II. We have to admit, it was a hell of a story. Unprintable, but a hell of a story.

short sightings Tokyo — As if buying up most of the banks and valuable real estate in

don johnson?

North America wasn’t co-opting enough, the Japan’s Kodokawa Publishing

It’s a terrific gag because not only is there the

obvious

double

entendre,

but

Company recently announced that they will build a copy of Christoper Col¬

also

umbus’ Santa Maria and sail it from Spain to Japan in 1992 to celebrate the

because the heavy black vice is in such con¬

500th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America. Somehow that seems

trast with the television show’s superficial pastel image.

to say it all, doesn’t it? A sail to Japan to celebrate the discovery of America.

LATITUDE/RiCHARD

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THESE ARE BARNACLES. TAKE A GOOD LOOK. YOU MAY NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN. -AUp until now there has been no real preventative for the plague of barnacles. These uninvited guests have been a miserable problem for boaters, causing expensive annual haul-outs, scraping, and costly chemical paints. And the only deterrent available has been a highly toxic bottom paint. Now for the first time, there’s an electronic barnacle preventive system ... BARNACLE BUSTER... a revolutionary device that transmits miniscule vibrations through the hull to prevent the attachment of baby barnacles.

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SIGHTINGS short sightings — cont’d

business

Washington — The DuPont corporation withdrew its request to dump

If you’ve ever wondered who does some

405,000 wet tons of iron chloride in the Atlantic Ocean 106 miles off the

of the beautiful graphics evident on boats

coast of New Jersey. Although they claimed the heavy metals in iron cloride

around the Bay, you’re looking at one of

were “totally safe and environmentally sound”, DuPont has decided to use

them. The guy behind the mask at San Fran¬

the waste to produce stone for roadways and artificial fishing reefs. Son Francisco Bay — maybe — Brian Harlow sent us a clipping that

cisco Boatworks is George Kelly, half the staff of Kelly/McCall Graphics. As you can

depicts the largest raftup ever. It took place last year in a Scottish loch and

see from the job he’s doing on Alex Shaw’s

had 191 boats hooked gunwhale to gunwhale in a complete circle. A larger

N>- bright red Olson 29 Simply Red, Kelly/Mc¬

“great circle” was planned for July 19 off Broadsands, near Torbay in

Call specializes in boat names any way you like them.

England, where up to 400 yachts were expected. In a fit of patriotism, Brian suggested that the boaters of San Franciso Bay could easily top that. Might not be a half-bad idea for one of those windless winter weekends ....

“As far as I know, we’re also the only ones who do boats in the water,” says Kelly.

Norfolk, Virginia — “I can’t take it anymore!” declared Patrick D’Alessan-

Though he’s done scores of boats of all types

cont’d on next sightings page

around the Bay since he started the business

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SIGHTINGS short sightings — cont’d

as usual in 1972, it’s usually the racers that like the biggest, boldest graphics. One of his most recognizable jobs in that area is the eye¬ stopping Pazzo Express on the side of Bill Ormond’s Express 37. Kelly and his partner average about five boats each a week, though this day George had already done one before Simply Red. and had another to do in Oakland before he could call it a wrap. Incidentally, Simply Red's big graphics took about three hours to design and another five to affix to the boat. That was yesterday. High winds delayed the actual airbrushing until today.

dro of his seasickness in early July. Pat then pulled out a knife and rifle and ordered the captain of the day boat Miss Marie to take him back to port. Cap¬ tain Ed Lominec complied, but when they pulled into Norfolk, land didn’t look quite so good to D’Alessandro: the police were waiting on it. Pat was charged with assault and mutiny and faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He said it was his first time at sea. Hyde Street Pier — To celebrate the arrival of the iron bark Balclutha at Hyde Street Pier, August 26 (Friday) has been declared “get acquainted day” and admission is free. A great opportunity to see the largest collection of historic ships on the west coast, and to find out more about the many films, lectures and programs put on by the museum year-round. If you need more information, call 556-6435. The Bay — We received late word of the first “Golden Gate Open,” which is scheduled for September 17. Sausalito Multihulls’ Lee Bullock came up with the idea, a good one, for a sort of “crewed” Three Bridge Fiasco. Like that shorthanded event, boats would round buoys by the Oakland, Golden Gate and San Rafael Bridges in any order; no handicaps — first-to-finish wins. With the Big Boat Series starting the next day, the timing could have been better, but organizers plan to hold next year’s event in late June. We’ll have more in the next issue on thife one. In the meantime, call Lee Bullock at 332-6533. San Francisco Bay — No one celebrated Independence Day like Melvin Belli. The famed divorce lawyer spent the fourth cruising around the Bay on Fifer, his 105-ft motoryacht. His independence day celebrating was on two fronts: the country’s 113th birthday and his independence from former wife Lia. In case you’ve been visiting Mars and have missed the goings on, their split makes Joan Collins’ messy divorce look like Mary Poppins, and they haven’t even been to court yet! Red Rock — On Sunday, June 25, the body of Patrick Williamson was spotted washed ashore on Red Rock by a passing boater. Recovery by the Richmond police boat Mission City ended a one-day search by the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary. Williamson was first reported missing on Saturday night, when Tess, his 30-ft sailboat was found floundering around San Pablo Bay with no one aboard. Williamson was last seen leaving his slip in San Rafael Yacht Harbor between 5:30 and 6:30 Saturday evening. Off the Corinthian YC — Damon Brown, a 30-year-old Los Gatos resi¬ dent, took an unplanned swim July 9 after being clobbered by the boom of Balestra, a 20-ft sailboat he was, up to that point, aboard. Apparently, the other two crew were inexperienced,, too, because they just kept going. A good Samaritan — whose name we’d like to run if he’ll contact us — picked up Brown. Acting as go-between, the Coast Guard made a bunch of phone calls and let everybody know that everybody else was okay. Oakland Estuary — A powerboat apparently attempting to pass a sailboat instead tailended it on Sunday, July 10. The impact caused the sailboat s rig and one of its crew to go into the water. The latter, Karen Perot of San Rafael, was taken to Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley with a broken jaw and “multiple fractures.” Martinez — A ruptured PG&E pipeline three miles east of Martinez caused 3,200 gallons of light crude oil to spill into Hastings Slough. The spill was reported by a passerby who had to call back two days later to find out why nothing had been done about it. This is the same'area that was polluted by the huge Shell Oil spill a few months back. Stockton — The Potomac, a 165-ft motoryacht once owned by Elvis, the King of Rock ’n Roll, is undergoing a badly needed repair and renovation at Colberg Boat Works. The owners hope that $1.9 million will get Elvis’ old yacht in good enough shape to be used as a floating museum and excursion vessel. The Potomac also used to be the presidential yacht of F.D.R. and successors. Tokyo — Oops! According to Japanese officials, the reason one of their submarines rammed and sank No. 1 Fujimaru is that it was trying to avoid a collision with a yacht. At least nine people are dead and 21 missing from the fishing boat.

CATAPULTED T

t was just after dark on the second night

lof the Catalina Race and all was well aboard

the

National Biscuit,

our

sleek

Schumacher 36, Santas Rosa Island was ten

It had been a glorious, sunny day of surf¬

watch headed

tow. We were 'confident tnder control, and that, if

or so miles off to port and the cockpit Loran

ing in steady 25 knot winds, and the six of us

that things were

showed us ripping off the mites, averaging

had all but forgotten about the previous

anything, the

over ten knots under 1.5 ounce kite. Only

night’s fiasco, when we’d broken our carbon

|oon.

75 miles to go — surely Zeus’ record of 49

fiber pole in a violent leeward round-down.

hours and some change would be demol¬

A few hours earlier, we’d listened to vintage

ished. If the wind held, we decided, even

rock

Despite our e: laustion. sleep didn’t come Easily. The Bisc ft was skidding all over the noisier than a steel mill acean, and it

we’d

margarita apiece) and dinner. After watching

lown below,

|ng at the ceiling over my

the sun sink over the horizon behind us, my

pipe berth, I

>mber hoping the helms-

break the record

everyone would.

heck,

almost

n’

roll

during

cocktail

hour

(one

fid would lighten up a bit

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had started to lift up and pin wheel, only to

broach out to weather. Now, things were m

even worse: it was blowing harder and it was

man wouldn’t hit the ditch, like last night.

Grabbfhg my foulies and harness, I poked

pitch black. To keep the bow up in the short

That had been a little too exciting ... 1 must

my head out the companionway to see what the problem was. It was really hooting now

deep waves, we needed all hands (butts?) on

have nodded off because after awhile — fif¬ teen minutes? an hour? — I was awakened

— the true wind speed read in the low 30’s,

by urgent pounding over our bunks apd the

the most we’d seen yet — and the bow

command to get on deck.

of our low freeboard “U-boat” was

the second day.

our amazement, we’d buried the bow so deep that the boat

L A IITUDE ROB

digging in again. This afternoon, to The ‘Biscuit’ boys blasting along on the afternoon of

CATAPULTED the stern. The only talk came from the co-driver, who was sitting across from the driver in case he lost it: “Up a little, okay, looking good . . .

here’s

puff

. . .

down,

straighten out now . . . okay, send it! . . The helmsman kept one eye dh the bow, the other on the compass, all the while concen¬ trating

keeping the

deck

level.

couldn’t see anything except the orange and green glow of the instruments on the mast; sheets of spray were shooting up several feet higher than the deck each time we took off. Twice, as we dropped off waves and the speedo hit 16-something, we buried the bow and had “white-outs” — walls of water were shredding on our bow pulpit, flying the length of the boat back into our faces, obscuring all vision. It was like going through a carwash, or skiing in powder over your head. It was also getting pretty close to the edge: we were hanging it all out, barely in control. This is crazy, one side of my brain kept say¬ ing; this is what you came for, responded the other side. I wondered how the other 126 boats in the race were doing.

bout the same time the Biscuit and the majority of the fleet were entering hyperspace for the second night in a row, Pat Farrah’s seemingly unstoppable Santa Cruz 70 Blondie was drifting across the finish line first at Arrow Point, just past the West do this race in 30 hours,” claimed watch

‘Star Duster’ dusted the fleet for the second year in

evening, July 5th — set a new elapsed time

captain Mike Elias. “We spent the last 12

a row. (L-R) Owner Gerald 'Poppa Smurf’ Gaughen,

record of 36 hours, no minutes, 35 seconds.

hours chasing jibe angles with the half-ounce

Dennis Hibdon, and Peter Baguye.

That’s an average of 10.7 knots for the

up.” Blondie, according to Elias, was also in

board and all the amenities; this was no

385-mile course, and it’s a milestone that

her cruise mode, “We had 14 people on

End. Her finish time —* 9:30 on Tuesday

probably won’t be eclipsed in the near future. Blondie’s

crew,

however,

disagreed:

“Given the right conditions, it’s possible to

hardship deal!” Aside from running over a tire (they literally found skid marks on the

USC’s ROTC vessel ‘Sea Traveler’ surprised a lot of folks by winning PHRF Division V.

rudder after the race), it was business as usual for Farrah’s gang. They’ve had a great year so far (firsts at MEXORC and Cal Cup and a second in the Manzanillo Race, among others)

and

November’s

are

looking

Cabo-Guadalupe

forward Race,

to the

only one of the three Cabo races that Blon¬ die doesn’t currently hold the record for. Farrah, watch captains Elias and Mark Wilson, and navigator John Jourdane all feel they took the fastest course possible. “We went outside the islands, even though that’s about five miles longer,” said Jour¬ dane. “We were off San Miguet early the next morning, and didn’t think there’d be enough wind to go down the Channel until the afternoon.” Paul Simonsen’s sistership Mongoose, which traded jibes with Blondie all the way to the finish, made the same deci¬ sion. The two boats had a great race, staying in sight of each other the whole way, with page 110

TO CATALINA race with an oversized

1/2 ounce kite,

reporting an average of 18 knots over the

Smurf”, felt they won the race by cutting inside Santa Rosa and San Miguel islands on

bottom during the heavy going. Entente, Tim Lane’s custom 32-foot catamaran, won the small multihull division despite blowing up both spinnakers. Before

the afternoon of the second day. last

the race, Lane claimed he’d win his class,

Latitude) were right on the money until Con¬

which he did. He also claimed he’d beat

ception,” said Gaughen, “This year, it paid

Blondie to Avalon, which he didn’t. (We

to shoot the islands, especially if you arrived

imagine a larger cat like Aikane might have,

there

35 knots

and hope to see some big multihulls take a

between the islands and were hitting sustain¬

shot at the new record next year.) Winning the 15-boat cruising (non-spinnaker) division

“Schumacher’s

when

race

we did.

tips

(in

had

the

ed 16’s in flat water for a few hours!” Star Duster went with four people this year, instead of five like they had in their win last year. In addition to Gaughen, they were sailmaker Bill Menninger, Dennis Hibdon (the former owner of Breakaway), and Peter Baguye.

“It was a fantastic crew,”

said

Gaughen. “We sailed the shit out of the boat. 1 think we finally got some respect — in the past, people grumbled about our rating. This year, no one mentioned it.”

was Herman Trutner’s Tartan 41 Regardless. Overall winners of the four divisions (IOR, PHRF, Multihull, and Cruising) got hand¬ held VHF’s, courtesy of West Marine Prod¬ ucts, in addition to the usual pickle dishes. The Midget Ocean Racing Association — whose San Diego long distance race died of natural causes and collapsed into the Catalina Race last year — awarded two prizes to boats under 30 feet (in addition to MYCO’s regular division trophies). Ragtime,

Gary McNair’s Cal 2-27, won the six-boat division of heavy boats; Mark Halman’s Ex¬ hat was their trip like? Gaughen

press 27 Salty Hotel beat 11 other light boats

recalls, “We were too busy to worry much

to claim that division as well as overall

about eating or sleeping. When we weren’t sailing, we were sponging water out of the bilge and wringing out sleeping bags. We sailed with the 3/4 ounce the whole way, and didn’t break anything, although we did crash pretty badly while jibing in about 30 knots the first evening. We kept a close eye minutes

on our digital compass and the Loran, and

behind Blondie. Barracuda and Pyewacket

weren’t afraid to jibe a lot. We’d wait until the

Mongoose

finishing

only

four

finished, in that order, about 45 minutes

boat hit about 15, and the helmsman would i

later. The wind died later that evening and

countdown, ‘3,2,1,go!’ and we’d do it. How did this race compare to past ones?

didn’t return until the next afternoon. The

“This was the best one yet! It wasn’t any win¬

sleds had slammed the door behind them,

dier than last year, but the wind held — for

finishing at the optimal time — Blondie

us at least — through most of the bottom half

ended up taking corrected honors in lOR as

of the course. The hardest part was getting

well. With the exception of Acey Deucy,

out the Gate — we were down to a *4 and a

Merlin, Octavia, liana Ho, and Allure (the

reefed main — and finishing. It took us four

latter two SC 50’s also crossed the line only

hours to go the last four miles. Aside from

four minutes apart) no one else came until

that, it was an exhilarating race!”

after daybreak. In all. 14 boats beat the old

Other boats turning in nice performances

record. Among the record-breakers was Gerald

include Richard Leute’s SC 50 Acey Deucy

Gaughen’s fixed keel Hobie 33 Star Duster,

finished

which

boat-for-

between Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands.

boat. winning Class IV and overall PHRF

amazingly

finished

tenth

and Stewart Kett’s SC 50 Octavia, which ^ one-two in PHRF I after going William ‘Scarface’ Weber needed 30 stitches over

say

Also shooting inside the islands were Wind¬ surfer, Walter Schneider’s Olson 40, vyhich

Gaughen owns this race: it was the second

dusted five sisterships in winning PHRF II.

year in a row that Star Duster has won

and the 32-foot surfboard Third Reef, which

MORA honors. Jim Gregory, one of the

overall, in the two races prior to that, he and

owners Andre Lacour, Tim Me He and Todd

seasoned salts on the Hotel, summed the

his Long Beach surfing buddies came in sec¬

Breadoff and two others rode to a five hour

ride up in one word; “Terrifying!” They aced

ond and first in class in another Hobie 33,

victory in PHRF 111. “We almost lit the stove

out sisterships Light'n Up and '86 overall

Breakavjay. Gaughen, a bearded 51-year-

once,” was how Lacour summed up the top

winner Leon Russell on the bottom half of

old grandfather whose nickname is 'Poppa

half of the course. They sailed most of the

the course, beating them both by under four

honors

page 111

in" the

proqess.

You

might

his left eye after getting boomed' in a power rounddown.

CATAPULTED minutes.

the three Express 27’s

time rigging the boat with spinnaker gear for

round-downs. It was particularly disappoint¬

finished ahead of eight out of the ten Express

the first time, then spent an afternoon prac¬

ing for Second Wind, which owner Justin

37’s, and had faster elapsed times than all of

ticing sets and douses. Despite blowing up a

Demello claims was “passing everything in

emarkably,

them. (Chris Baldwin and only'three crew¬ members sailed Mainframe really agressively, beating out Foghead in yet another four minute

victory,

win

the

Express

trophy). The 27’s all reported wild and noisy rides: according to Bruce Powell of Leon Russell, you don’t need a knotmeter to know how fast you’re going: “At 11 knots, there’s this low hum. At 13, it jumps up an octave; at 15 it jumps up again. At 17, it hits a nice high double C. At 20, all you can hear is the crew screaming!” However, it wasn’t an Express 27 or any similar little skimming dish

(Joe Durrett,

owner of Anna Banana, claimed “A race like this in a Moore 24 changes you.”) that won

lot of their borrowed sails in the race, Sea

sight — we were ahead of our sistership Cur¬

PHRF V. Rather, it was a total darkhorse —

Traveler beat the rest of their 25-boat class

sor at the time and they finished second in

the heavy Morgan 41 ketch Sea Traveler,

by cutting inside the Channel Islands. They

our class.”

under the command of Mike Turner — that

broad reached to the finish instead of run¬

Great Fun broke the top eight inches off

claimed the honor'. That the boat, which is

ning — proving conclusively, to us at least,

their masthead while jibing to clear a spinny

property

that the inside track was favored this year.

wrap, the Santa Cruz 27 Tabasco frayed a

the

University

Southern

California ROTC program, was in the race at

lower

all is a minor miracle.

shocked crew also admit to withdrawing out

“Getting the boat ready and going up the coast were the hardest parts,” said Turner, a

ot everyone made it to the “Isle of Romance”.

Twelve

boats

dropped

out,

(owner Jim Stegall and his shell¬

of concern for their safety), and the Olson 30 Flyer broke their forestay and bent their mast in

port/starboard

confrontation

before

even out the Gate. Flyer was on starboard; the last we’d heard they still weren’t sure which boat nailed them. Another boat which didn’t get to go for the sleigh ride was the Choate 39 Phantom, which turned back several hours into the race with an injured crewmember. Appar¬ ently, he managed to impale his rear end on the pump handle of the head, incurring in¬ ternal damage . . . Another more serious crew injury took place on the C&C 29 Sea Quake: Alameda yacht broker Ed M;,ano was lounging in the cockpit on the first night when the boat crash-jibed. The traveler spun him into the cabin top, bashing his head and knocking him out for five minutes. Milano,, bleeding badly, was in a state of semi-shock for the next hour. The

Coast

dropping

Guard

half

Spiderman-style

responded

hospital

and

down from

quickly, a

medic

helicopter

onto Sea Quake. Rather than attempt to transfer Milano, who was thought to have a concussion, off in high seas, they motored 29-year-old Navy lieutenant and ROTC in¬

Some people, like the crew of ‘

structor who has commanded the boat for

had a bit too much fun in Avalon.

the last two years. Their trip north was ghast¬ ly (engine failure, fog, two returns to Coho),

18 miles back to Pfeiffer Cove. There, he was put in a basket and lifted up (“a really different kind of ride,” said Ed afterwards) to

almost all after the first night. Five boats had

the helicopter. Milano was treated at the

but they arrived in the Bay with two days to

rig failures: the Santa Cruz 40 Camelot and

Monterey Bay Hospital, and released in time

spare. Turner and his 8-man crew spent the

Wylie 38 Second Wind were dismasted in

to go to Avalon for the post-race festivities. page I I 2

TO CATALINA Terry (Seeker) . . . Best finishes in Navy Yacht Club Long Beach’s 35-boat Home¬ ward Bound Race: Cursor, Barracuda, and “It was a freak accident; just one of those things,” said Milano, who’s already looking

layers of glass and gelcoat applied over the entire hull.

forward to next year’s race.

Bladerunner in PHRF A;

Svendle,

Star

Duster and Class Action in B . In the “most —” category, the 55,000 pound Tatoosh 51 Seeker demolished the

enough other sea stories to fill a book. Here’s

most chutes (three) . . .Most jibs demol¬ ished: Seawings, which ripped two headsails

a quick random sample:

before the windy start of the cruising division

f course, a race of this size generates

In the “oooops!” category, we have Irra¬

on Sunday afternoon, July 3. They started

tional, whose crew forgot to bring their charts

the race baldheaded, with only a double-

(they navigated to Catalina with a road map)

reefed mainsail up . . . Most time on the race

. . . Light’n Up’s Jim Maloney fell over going

course: the International Folkboat Poem,

out the Gate when a pelican hook opened

which limped in Thursday night at 9:30 after

up on the lifeline he was leaning on . . .

three-and-a-half days on the race course

Swiftsure dropped a spinnaker overboard,

. . . Most heroic: William Weber, a crew¬

but managed to go back and recover it in less

member on Morningstar, who got clobbered

than ten minutes ... No one really counted

over his left eye by the boom in a “power

all the kites and poles that didn’t make it, but

round-down”.

Light’n Up and Morningstar deserve special

pain, Weber refused owner Larry Doane’s

recognition for breaking not one, but two

offer to drop out of the race so he could get

sails: Randy Tar pulled into Morro Bay for repairs and Blacksiluer headed into Santa

poles

medical attention. Weber was sewed up (30

Barbara. Blacksiluer, we’re told, tore their

which surfaced right in front of them, while

Two other boats withdrew with torn main¬

. . .

Flamingo, with Dick “Jonah”

Pino holding the wood, brushed a whale

Bleeding profusely and in

stitches) after the race in Avalon ....

main in a unique way: they broached, caus¬

Swell Dancer broached to avoid another

ing a jacket to fall off a bunk into the steering

whale . In the “best —” category, we nominate the

Blondie? Star Duster? Poem? Personally, on the submarine Biscuit — it was certainly

der but had enough steerage left to get to

following: Best round-down (and there were so many to chose from) goes to Blitz. Veteran helmsman Jack Adam performed it:

Monterey and the multihull Amata Pea,

nothing broke, but it completely soaked the

which was had no electronics and was dead

owner, George Neill, who was sitting on

a hard thing to measure, and everyone — all 127 boats, 700-some sailors, the Metropoli¬

reckoning to Catalina, pulled into Santa

what had formerly been the windward side

tan YC, and everyone else connected with

Cruz when their log failed. But the strangest drop-out had to have

. . . Best crew shirt: Flamingo, whose shirts

the tenth annual Catalina Race — had a blast

asked the question, “How am I driving? Dial

this year. From the windy start through the

been the MacGregor 65 Fastrack — the one

800-EAT-SHIT”.

once-again terrific awards bash, it was a

quadrant, seizing up the steering on the boat, which led into the accidental jibe that ripped the main. Michegaas broke their rud¬

he most fun? That’s a hard one —

we’d like to think we had the best time of all the highlight of our summer so far. But fun is

with the “K-Mart 65” logo on the cabin house. According to syndicate head Mike Paselk, they were bombing along next to Pyewacket at dusk the first night when the boat started to slow down. “Pyewacket sud¬ denly just smoked us,” said Paselk, “We couldn’t figure it out — the rig was straining, like the boat wanted to go 22, but couldn’t get over 17.” About midnight, when they were 60 miles directly off Morro Bay, they realized what was happening. “We heard this weird noise like velcro ripping,” related Paselk,

‘We

looked over the side and saw a big piece of fiberglass just hanging there.” As it turned out, the entire outer skin of the boat was fall¬ ing off — it had started underwater first,

'Lively' ghosts towards the Arrow Pt. finish line, a welcome sight after a windy ride.

week to remember. It’s all going to happen again next year,

which accounted for the dramatic drop in

probably with a slightly smaller fleet due to

speed. “You could see a flashlight shining through the hull,” said Paselk. They slowed

Best boat name: Happy Camper. Best

competition from the TransPac. But like the

the boat way down and headed for Santa

bars in Avalon: El Galleon (best all-around

saying goes, “it ain’t the quantity, it’s the

Barbara, keeping close tabs on the liferaft

bar), The Marlin Club (best dive), and the

quality” — and this race has that in spades.

and the other safety gear. Fastrack made it to

Chi

The Catalina Race has arrived, and it’s here

port “without agitating the Coast Guard”, as

golfers: Hal Nelson (Zeus) and Sven Svend-

Paselk put it, and is currently getting two

sen (Suendle) . , . Best pool player: Ron

Chi

Club

(best

dancing)

. . .

Best

to stay. — latitude

- rkm

IOR 1. Blondie* 2. Mongoose * 3. Barracuda * 4. Pyewacket * 5. Hana Ho* 6. Irrational 7. Allure* 8. National Biscuit 9. One Eyed Jack 10, Shearwater 11. Invictus 12. Notorious ; 13 Kentucky Woman 14. Blade Bunnet 15. Rambunctious 16. Swiftsure 17. Deception

Santa CruZ 70 : Santa Cruz 70 Nelson/Marek 68 Nelson/Marek 68 Santa CruzJSO Peterson 41 Santa Cruz SO Schumacher 36 Express 37 Morgan 36 CSC 40 Olson 40 Peterson 40 Express 37 Olson 40 Frets 59 Santa Cruz 50

PHRF - CRUISING 1. Regardless 2. Firebrand 3. Fuzzy Duck 4. Renaissance SIC'est La Vie 6. Aquila 7. Finale II 8. Salma 9. Dancing Dolphin Gigolo 11. Sun King 12. Amanda 13. Reflections 14. Ma Che tie 15 .Seawings

Tartan 41 Worth 40 Catalina 30 Targa 34 Islander 36 Olson 40 Sabre 42 Cheoy Lee 41 Force 50 Catalina 34 Columbia 45 Newport 30 Perry 47 Tazwelf 43 Carpentier 46

Herman Trutner Heinrich Gantenbein Jim Russell Mary Swift Keith Levy Graham Hawkes Alex Finlay J. & S, Rintaia John Efienne Gary Wood Jack Sogomonian P. Brokerick/D. Walsh Max Young Bill McDermott Jon Berg

MULTIHULL 1. Entente* 2. Defiance 3. Galatea 4 Corsair 5 . 2 Up 6. Amata Pea

Custom 32 Cross 33 Custom 27 Custom 27 Crowther 33 Searunner 31

TimothyLane Bill Maudru Michael Lae) John Walton Ray Walker George Hewitt

2: 0:32:42 2: 1:34:24 2; 1:48:42 2: 1:48:62 2: 1:54 1

PHRF 1 1. Acey Deucy * 2. Octavia* 3. Hana Ho * 4. Allure * 5. Merlin * 6. Zeus * 7. Rocket 8. Lively 9, Emily Carr 10, Deception 11. Swiftsure 12, Blacks Hirer 13. Fastrack

Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Lee Custom 67 MacGregor 65 Santa Cruz 50 Sharpie 65 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Frers 59 Steiner 58 MacGregor 65

Richard leute Stewart Kett Rotfe & J ulie Croker Chuck Jacobson Racers Edge Charter Hal Nelson Marie Bieiweis Robert Haberman Andy Hall Michael Roth Sy Kieinman S. Steiner/A. Adams Fastrack Syndicate

1:13:50:10 1:14:16:40 1:17: 9:34 1:18:13:35 1:20:31. 9 2: 0: 7:31 2: 0:32: 3 2* 2: 6:47 2: 2:11: 5 2: 2:28:29 2: 2:50:52

PHRF If 1. Windsurfer* 2. Cursor 3. Sparky 4. Notorious 5. Pythagoras 6. Rambunctious 7. Daisy 8. Revelry 9. Fastbreak 10. Clipper 11. Kotuku 12. Pegasus 13. Bones VtU 14. Second Wind 15. Great Fun

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2:16:35: 4 2:16:41:17 2:17:38:23 2:23:21 .•50

DNF

0NF DNF

16, Camelot

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bNF

DNF DNF

1:14:36:42 1 14 42.57 1:14:44.16 1:14:46:15 1:16:32:20 1:18:14:59 1:18:35:30 1:18:49:22 1:19: 0:44 1:20:33: 1 1:21:28:23 1:22: 4:33 1-22:23:23 1:23: 9:11 1:23:59:24 2: 1: 2:56 2: 3: 8:28 2: 4: 2:15 Z 5: 6:56 2: 5:43: 3 2: 7:16:29 2: 9-24:45 ' 2: 9:26:30 DNF DNF DNF

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t was a bitter way to end 15 years of cruising. On June 29, 440 miles west of

PHOTOS COURTESY RAY TRIPLETT

San Francisco, Ray and Shirley Triplett had to abandon September Song, the 50-ft boat

was the jib furling system. They put up a

that had been their home for the last seven

small working jib and kept going. Though

years. v Ironically, they were on the home stretch

undercanvassed

(jib, trysail and mizzen),

September Song was still averaging a respec- N.

there — the bunks, lockers — just splintered. Through the rest of the boat, everything and

When he reached latitude 32, Ray flopped

everybody went flying.”

5,000 miles out of the Galapagos Islands, with only 4 or 5 days more to San Francisco Bay and home. The irony is that when they last appeared on these pages, they had just arrived home from an 8-year circumnaviga¬ tion aboard Morningstar, a 46-ft Garden ketch. They subsequently sold Morningstar, bought September Song, a 50-ft fiberglass Herreschoff ketch and took off again, this time for the Mediterranean. The

couple

spent

six

years exploring

Homer’s “wine dark sea” (which in reality is normally a clear,

crystalline blue)

before

crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Based in the British Virgins, they spent two more years exploring that part of paradise. After that, the plan was to come back home, live in a real house, sail locally and “just take it easy for a while,” says Ray. He and Shirley will both celebrate their 67th birthdays this year. They

went

from

the

British

Virgins,

through Panama, to the Galapagos. From there,

they planned to sail nonstop for

home, some 5,500 sailing miles away. They were hard miles, at least after they passed

through

the

doldrums.

The first

major casualty of the trip was the mainsail. One day a line squall ripped out the entire mainsail track. Ray and crewman/friend Jim Holm worked on a jury rig for a week in rough seas without success. (Though Ray and Shirley did 90 percent of their cruising without crew, 33-year-old Holm was along for the trip home.) In the end, they dropped the main and rigged the storm trysail on the main mast.

ext to go, in building seas and wind,

An immediate inspection disclosed serious

But a strong northerly, combined with the

damage. Just below the waterline, a few feet

southerly current, made it unlikely, then im¬

back from the stem on the starboard side, the

possible. For a while, “I hoped for anything

three-inch thick fiberglass bottom was oilcan¬

above Pt. Conception,” says Ray. But by the

ning. Oilcanning? Try bubblegumming — a

time the wind got to 40 knots and some of

two-foot round section was popping in and

the combers were approaching 20 feet, San

Happier days — ‘September Song’ in the Virgin

Diego sounded awful good.

Islands.

On June 28, September Song dropped

of the last leg of their cruise — 34 days and

“There was a big crash and the forecabin just exploded,” says Triplett. “Everything up

table 7 knots in about 35 knots of wind. the boat east, hoping to lay San Francisco.

decisions of my life.”

off a wave and landed on something solid.

THE ABANDONMENT OF 'SEPTEMBER SONG' tions, I said I’d rather take my chances on the boat through the night. The pilot okayed my decision and said he’d have a C-3 out with out 8 to 12 inches every time the bow hit the water. (Ray

speculates

that

the

boat

hit

“deadhead,” a log that has broken free from a log float in the Pacific northwest and drifted south.

Once waterlogged enough,

dead¬

heads float vertically just below the surface.)

T 1

riplett immediately hove the boat to

and took stock of the situation. He figured he had two choices: Try to keep going — San Diego was still four to five days away — or abandon the boat. For the former, though they could keep up all right with a slow leak

us at first light.”

Ray and Shirley Triplett.

that had developed, Ray didn’t think the weakened hull could take the pounding.

Coast Guard’s response — the pilot wouldn’t

“Sooner or later, I knew that the glass would just fatigue and fail,” he says. “If that happened, I wasn’t sure we could get the liferaft

he larger plane arrived on schedule,

and with it the first of several quirks in the jettison the liferaft. > “I wanted the guy to drop the raft next to the boat so we could lash them together. The

inflated and ourselves off the boat before it

pilot said he’d rather keep the raft on the

went down. And it was too rough to have to swim to the raft.” It was a legitimate fear: During the war, Ray had seen a torpedoed warship go down in less than a minute. ’ The alternative — to abandon the boat —

“There was a big crash

seemed only slightly less horrendous. “It was one of the most painful decisions of

and the forecabin

my life,” says Ray. “But I knew we had to leave her.” September Song’s Mayday reached a ham operator in

Kansas.

Triplett relayed the

just exploded.”

boat’s position, situation, even rate of drift to the contact, who then called Coast Guard Long Beach. Armed with such precise infor mation, the pilot of the Coast Guard Falcon jet had no trouble finding the stricken yacht.

plane until we were sinking! I tried to explain

“He roared right over at almost masthead

that the whole reason we called for assis¬

height!” says Ray. Triplett talked to the pilot on VHF as he

tance was that we couldn’t swim to a raft in

circled. “He wanted to drop us a raft, but it

between boat and plane went on for several

was getting dark. Considering the condi

minutes, but when the C-3 left, its raft was

the

present

conditions.”

The

argument

RAY AND SHIRLEY TRIPLETT still aboard. The Navy finally intervened, directing the 730-ft British bulk cargo ship La Pampa to go to the aid of the smaller vessel. They

a short time, La Pampa was requested to

tour of the island brought back a lot of

arrived on the scene about six in the evening

divert to Midway. The rest of the adventure was uneventful

stroke of luck, the once-a-week supply plane

on June 29. By then,

the

sea

conditions

arrived the same day they did, and they

had

were able to hitch a ride when it flew out.

FINDERS, KEEPERS

deteriorated even more, making it far too rough for the ship’s utility boat to make the transfer. The only choice, informed Captain

dging from:

David Smith, was for Triplett to maneuver

■

The Tripletts are

)

■

;

and make the transfer via Jacob’s ladder.

Guard’s

Song

■

“I knew it was going to wreck the boat,”

curiosity, we called an admiralty lawyer to

aboard the ship with important papers and what few personal effects they could carry, Triplett’s

beautiful

sickeningly

September against

the

?r'

Song

towline on that boat owns it,’’ says attor-

rust-

deciding factor in this case is that the

dome and several shrouds were gone. But

intention to return. The same is true if

the boat hove to again. The last sight the

■

Tripletts had of ,her, September Song was during

this

accurately,

10 or 12 years ago. The Coast Guard towed there’s a $250,000 boat out there and they

same

Ol . '

years of a good reputation. In our case, La

;

Hicth-.-r

;

over the bow” in their log) had aboard $3 million worth of wheat bound for Taiwan.

■

;

ildn't be

11 in all, though, Ray is glad that

...

to scuttle — purposely sink — a vessel

But Captain Smith offered to divert to Mid¬

everyone

survived the

minor bruises.

ordeal

with

only

He still feels badly about

leaving the boat to fend for herself, and still

■

way Island to drop the the three Americans.

Zero Tolerance thing, they are ruining 100 Pampa did their job for them.”

“seas breaking :

seem really vindictive about their budget cut¬

finders, keepers

still nosing bravely into the huge seas. (which

actions,

inactions. “I was on the ham net when the old

backs. I’ll tell you, with that attitude and this

■

the rig stood, and the still-set sails soon had

Pampa

didn’t even send a cutter out. “The impression I got is that the Coasties

parted, half the main spreader, the radar

home

that boat 1,000 miles into Kodiak. Now

streaked hull. By the time the two vessels

weather system recorded

back

Sorcerg did a 360 coming back from Alaska

says Ray. He was right. As the three climbed

pounded

now

Lafayette, in good health and mostly good spirits. Ray is still steamed about the Coast

September Song along the ship’s lee side

the

memories of the War in the Pacific. In a

hopes

■■

The Coast Guard said no, sorry, no civilians

that

she

may

wash

ashore

somewhere.

allowed on Midway. You’ll have to go all the

vi;

'lv

the

way to Taiwan.

For the future? Well, he and Shirley still plan to enjoy at least some of their golden

cat c

years ashore. But with 15 straight years of

they'U

cruising and a lifetime of sailing in their

the owner with the bill. eedless to say, Triplett was getting

blood, it likely won’t be long before you see

pretty fed up with the attitude problem the

them out on the Bay again.

Coasties appeared to have about the situa¬

in comparison. The seven American person¬

tion. He put in a call to a friend’s stateside

nel on Midway (the rest are Sri Lankan

boat,” says Ray.

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1988 WEST MARINE PACIFIC CUP

ortland’s Dave King was sick when he started July 4th’s West Marine Pacific

Cup race from San Francisco to Hawaii. Damn sick of hearing everyone from com¬ petitors to race committee members use a denigrating nickname for his boat. Whether it was expressed good-naturedly

or not, King disliked the nickname so much he couldn’t even bring himself to utter: “Wetsnail 32”. His mission in the Pacific Cup, therefore, was to prove to the world that Westsail 32’s aren’t nearly as slow as most people believe. To say that King accomplished his goal would be an understatement. His Saraband beat the entire fleet of 27 boats on corrected time by a comfortable hour and 15 minutes. An

instructor

celestial

navigation,

delivery skipper and yacht repair man, King knows Westsail 32’s just about as well as anyone. In addition to doing some long¬ distance deliveries on them, he lived aboard and cruised his first Westsail 32, Gamen, for 12 years. He bought his second Westsail 32, Saraband in April of this year with the specific intention of winning the Pacific Cup. His first hurdle was getting permission to enter the race.

The race announcement

decreed a maximum PHRF rating of 180, while Westsail 32’s, depending on the area, rate 216 to 230. Not wanting to cause any trouble, King wrote the race committee and

Above; a victorious Dave King. Spread; it Was a

asked if he might be allowed to enter They

mixed bag of boats that started the West Marine Pacific Cup.

responded affirmatively — a decision which

would result in the only big stink of the race. Had you searched high and low, you probably couldn’t have found a more suitable Westsail 32 for King than Saraband, for he’s a man who believes in keeping things extremely simple. When he cruised his first Westsail 32, for example, he had no knotmeter, no wind instruments — not even a VHF radio. “1 was openly criticized for „ ‘negligence’,” he says, “but 1 never asked for help from anyone. But 1 saw fully-equipped boats having to cut their voyages short and return home because they didn’t have the right part for their refrigeration system.” Accordingly, when King purchased Sara¬ band in Eureka in April of this year, it was low tech and lightly equipped. There was no 7/1 spinnaker gear or nylon sails of any type, for instance. There were no controls on the mainsail other than the mainsheet and halyard. The sails, including the roachless main, were all under the maximum size allowed for the rating. About he only luxury was the knotmeter; King had never owned a boat equipped with one. Despite his determination to win the race, King added very little go-fast equipment to his new boat. The biggest single purchase was a new spinnaker, which blew up beyond repair two-thirds of the way into the race. That forced him to rely on his $300 backup; a 1968 Hood crosscut chute. Not onlu ufe*

- THE REVENGE OF THE WETSNAIL 32

knots, such surges were rare. It was the con¬

PHOTOS BY LATITUDE 38 AND: PACIFIC CUP PARTICIPANTS this spinnaker a technological antique, it was

“It’s a 7.2 knot boat,” he

only 70 allowed.

secret is that she reaches 7.2

percent

of the

maximum

size

sistent near hull speeds that set the margin for victory.'

“Her

The last three days runs, for example, -were 161 miles, 168 miles and 172 miles.

quickly and easily because

Saraband’s crew wasn’t particularly go-fast either. “Willing, but inexperienced,*’ is King’s description. s

long waterline for a 32-foot boat.” King

and

crew

were

able

immensely heavy 20,000-lb slide down some waves at a lit

Not bad for a 32-footer with an undersized antique chute sailing in winds averaging less than 20 knots. Just ask the doublehanded crew on Black Knight, a J/30 which finished ■ only an hour earlier. Or the fully crewed

** t the start of the West Marine Pacific

which finished an hour later than

Cup, the Portland sailor’s chances of win¬ ning looked about as good as Reagan’s chances of getting elected to a third term.

While admitting he’s impressed by the raw ’’

ing at the starting line. Once again not want¬

ultralights, King hopes-his victory hten many sailors who seem to be . ..-j-—-pceptions The

ing to cause trouble, King tacked away to

the infatuation

The C&C 31 Sorcerer called them for barg¬

complete

the

required

360°

penalty

. To get

maneuver. If the Westsail has an admitted

up a lot of other valuable

weak point, it’s with agility. And if King has a

is cold, hard cash. King

weak point, it’s with local knowledge of San

If could have saved conmoney

Francisco Bay tides. The combination of the

the crossing i

two wasn’t a pretty sight. .

than comfort. King, who

“We were last to start,” admits King, “and

because we missed the tide we were three

to seasickness on livelier boats,

hours behind the fleet by the time we got to

ks too many people — especially women

the Golden Gate Bridge.” That was clearly the low point of the race for King and his crew.

- give up sailing because of the unpleasant >n inherent in marginally faster boats, y, there’s the ability to carry stores.

The highpoint was easily the finish some

While lighter boats are inherently faster, they

14 days and 16 hours later when Saraband

cariY carry many stores without sacrificing

crossed the finish line in the wee hours to correct out first over a disbelieving fleet that included everything from Santa Cruz ultra¬ lights to Taiwan heavyweights. There was no denying it, a low-tech ‘Wetsnail 32’ with a raw crew had won a TransPac! Although he knew others would be, King was not shocked by the Westsail’s victory.

WEST MARINE PACIFIC CUP

1988

Mike- Casinelli: “There I was, at the top of the

Portland victors, Steve Rander and Bill Huseby.

mast . .

performance. Saraband, on the other hand,

charterers an off-year opportunity to duke it

The competition wasn’t any more severe.

won the West Marine Pacific Cup with more

out under the traditional IOR handicap rule.

The other two first-to-finish threats were the Nelson/Marek

sleds

Swiftsure

III

and

than enough stores leftover to sail back to

Honors in this year’s three maxi sled, five

Portland. What did Randy Repass, founder and

boat, IOR fleet went to Phillipe Kahn who chartered the Santa Cruz 70 Kathmandu on

lining Merlin in 1986, Swiftsure III began the

owner of the many West Marine Product

her last race before being turned over to her

race on rhumbline or a little north of it. For

Maverick. Because she’d lost to a rhumb¬

stores and main sponsor of the race, think of

new Japanese owner. Kahn, who owns a

unknown

the Westsail 32’s victory? “1 think it’s great,”

Baltic 43, Dolphin Dance, in Santa Cruz, put

farther north, as much as 140 miles above

reasons.

Maverick sailed even

he said, despite the fact that his ultralight

together a mixture of TransPac vets , and

Kathmandu.

Santa Cruz 40, Promotion, corrected out 15

novices. The six experienced hands, which

The big danger in sailing any TransPac

hours behind the Westsail.

included skipper Skip Allan, Commodore

close to rhumbline is that you’ll near the

While a Westsail 32 victory might be con¬

Tompkins, Phil Vandenberg and Jack Otis,

Pacific High and run out of wind — which is

sidered a disaster in most major ocean races,

had a total of 52 TransPac races under their

exactly what happened to Swiftsure and

in many ways it fits right in with the West

belts. They were assisted by five novices,

Maverick. They were then faced with a terri¬

Marine Pacific Cup’s concept of “the fun

including the three women on the “nacho"

ble choice: trying to sail low in light air or jib¬

race to Hawaii”. The idea behind the new

(as opposed to “macho”) watch.

they’d be headed for Tierra del Fuego rather

is that the other TransPac’s (Los Angeles to

Kathmandu. “Except for the cloud cover

than Oahu. So for all intents and purposes,

Honolulu

have

and lack of moon, it was an extremely

the first-to-finish race was over early. In fact,

become such rarified IOR events that there is

pleasurable ride,” reported Skip Allan. “The

when Kathmandu was hit by the 32-knot

no room for family or weekend warriors to

ocean was clean and smooth — perfect con¬

squall, the brain trust decided to drop the

get their competitive kicks across the Pacific.

ditions. The wind was moderate throughout,

chute. And why not? What's the point of

The hope is that a more relaxed atmosphere

16 to 22 knots. We never saw consistent

risking breaking something when

combined with thousands of dollars of prizes

winds of more than 25 knots and the top was

consolidated a 43-mile lead?

will

32 in one squall.”

and

Victoria

encourage

Maui)

average

sailors

was

not

difficult

TransPac

ing over to the other tack with the result for

Pacific Cup and West Marine’s involvement

you’ve

Kathmandu's line honor victory ride was

majority of sailors can relate more easily to Westsail 32’s than Santa Cruz 70’s, the former’s victory was anything but a disaster.

he ‘something for everybody’ concept

of the race was obvious from the various divisions: IOR, doublehanded, and two in PHRF. While nobody is about to mistake the West Marine Pacific Cup for the super-competitive Los

Angeles

Honolulu

TransPac,

nonetheless gave maxi sled owners and

m&m

embark on the great adventure. Since the

- THE REVENGE OF THE WETSNAIL 32

The wild goose got a lei for the Pacific Cup.

marred by just two small problems. The first

Most Pacific Cup’ers kept up on their important

Linda: "Yeah, I got them to use the sandwich bags

reading.

the whole trip.”

ble. Two weeks prior to the start, one of the f a Westsail 32 winning a TransPac

Competitors successfully protested her rating

broke during a jibe in the black of night.

wasn’t enough to make traditionalists gag,

to the tune of 18 seconds per mile. Unable to

Lifelong

Tompkins

there was more. Other than Kathmandu, all

appeal, she thus had nearly seven hours

some floor¬

division winners were from that ocean racing

added to her corrected time. Had Magic

was the carbon fiber' spinnaker pole that

worked

seaman enough

Commodore magic with

boards and small line to keep it in action for another two days before they had to resort to

Carpet sailed with her original rating, she

capital of the world, Portland, Oregon. Portland, for those of you who can’t quite

would have won fleet honors.

the aluminum backup. Then there was the

place it, is 90 miles up the Columbia River

A second pre-race problem was delivering

vertigo. With no moon and heavy cloud

from the Pacific Ocean. To Portland sailors,

the 42-ft cold molded boat down from

cover, it often became difficult for the driver

a wave is what you do when saying goodbye

Portland. Beating into a southerly with just a

to a friend. Wind is something you only read about. In Portland, navigation is strictly by

triple

to know which way was up. A halogen headlight helped, but only slightly. Kathmandu reported a top speed of about

eyeball and the big challenge is to avoid the

20 knots and a best day’s run of about 290 miles. Maverick is said to have put in one

river current. Then how does one explain the Portland-

320-mile day. Consistent moderate winds

based

reefed

main,

the

anenometer

registered 65 knots before it blew off the top of the mast. Then there was the matter of crew.

order to

save weight,

Rander

decided to sail with six crew rather than the

usual eight. When two crewmembers had to

honors in the Pacific Cup for the third time in

cancel out the two days before the race, he

breaking fast or slow days. Kathmandu’s

a row? Owner Steven Rander, who builds

was suddenly down to four crew and in dire

elapsed time of 9 days, 3 hours was well off

boats for a living, thinks he knows: “Prepara¬

straits.

both the TransPac record of 8 days, 8 hours

tion, that’s the big thing in a race like this. We

produced “two great pickup crew”.

and the old Pacific Cup record (to Kauai) of

had one shackle break on a spinnaker guy

was the order of the race, with no record-

8 days, 14 hours, 53 minutes, 50 seconds.

The Kaneohe YC, a great place to finish.

Magic

Carpet

winning

PHRF

Fortunately, was the

case

the with

Richmond King

and

his

and that was it.” Things were indeed a breeze for Magic

Westsail, Rander didn’t believe in adding a

Carpet once she got on the course. It was

fact, he won his class for the third straight

before the race that she had all kinds of trou¬

time using all the boat’s original 1982 sails —

lot of expensive new gear for the race. In

except for a 1.5 oz. chute. If nothing else, Magic Carpet is a remarkably consistent boat. This is the third TransPac in a row that she’s completed in 11 days and 9 hours. Like fellow Portlander King, Rander also lived aboard for years and considers his boat the perfect ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’ cruising boat. The difference is speed. Hitting lots of 12 and 14’s and one 19, Magic Carpet averaged 7.81 knots for the course, well over Saraband’s theoretical hull speed. To each their own theories on cruising. For Magic Marine

Pacific

Carpet, Cup

the

pleasant West

conditions

meant

1988 WEST MARINE PACIFIC CUP

Marsha Robben and Chris Brandes made sure ‘Kialoa II’ didn’t sail without culture.

minimum of sail changes. After leaving the

bought it. For the next four months he and

their engines to run or batteries to charge.”

Gate with a #4 and a double-reefed main,

friends — most notably Bob Calloway —

Such distractions would be unacceptable to

they rapidly added sail until they carried a

labored to attach the hull and deck, put on

Huseby, who wanted all energy directed

full main and #1. Like virtually all the other

the keel, install the engine, do the wiring and

toward getting the boat to the Kaneohe Bay,

boats, they set a spinnaker the second morn¬

electronics, and mount all the hardware. On

Oahu finish line as quickly as possible.

ing — incredibly early by normal standards.

May 13, Huseby and his 19-year-old crew,

With just a two person crew, energy was

They carried the 1.5 for a couple of days,

Joby Easton, went sailing for the first time.

always in short supply on the doublehanded

the .75 for a couple of days, then went back

Although they “wiped out bad” mid-race,

boats. As you might expect, the crew of

to the 1.5 for the remainder of the course.

they did just fine at the finish, beating alKthe

Sting tried to combat the lack of it. Weeks

Except for adding a tallboy from time to

boats in the Astoria to Newport, Oregon

before the race started, Huseby and Easton

time, that was it for sail changes in 11 days!

race. This was followed by victory in the

began sleeping at alternate times, simulating

190-mile

the on-off pattern they hoped would last

The Carpet secret maneuver for the race was the two pole jibe, which allows “perfect

Astoria

Victoria,

British

through the race. In reality, none of the

Columbia, race.

control over the chute during the jibe”.

Having delivered a TransPac boat back to

doublehanded entries was able to stick to a

When asked why few other boats seem to do

the mainland last time, this year Huseby

watch schedule; driving at night was just too

it, Rander had a ready answer: “Because

thought it was about time he and other

debilitating.

they’re idiots.” That would be cocky talk

“Portland sailors came down and kicked

Abandoning the

idea

of set

watches,

from someone who hadn’t won division

some butt.” Of the three Portland victors,

Huseby or Easton would drive until they

honors three times in a row.

nobody kicked harder than Huseby and

couldn’t take it any longer.

he remaining division in the race was

Easton on Sting. Their margin of victory was a massive 16 hours over Black Knight, Steve

the other when sleep was imminent. The

Rassmusen’s J/30 from Monterey.

amount of time they could drive varied

the four-boat doublehanded group. Like the

Like Rander on Magic Carpet, Huseby

other two Portland division winners, an amiable but goal-oriented Bill Huseby of

believes that “preparation was the Portland

Sting seemed a little shaky on the “fun race

Easton knew it intimately. If there was a

to Hawaii” concept. Said the former member

noise, they knew exactly where it came from

of the Stanford Sailing team:

and if it was significant. Thus they had few

“I

come

from

collegiate

racing

background, and the only sailing 1 do is rac¬

secret”. Having built the boat, Huseby and

distractions.

They

methodically

checked

everything during the race, too, although it

ing. I’ve learned that winning is many times

wasn’t necessary. “Basically nothing went

more fun than just sailing the course. I

wrong because I’d spent so much time think¬

bought this boat to win this race and thought

ing

of winning the whole time I was putting it

Huseby. Even relatively minor things like

things

over

before

the

race,”

says

leathering the guys where they go through

together.” ‘This boat’ was, as of January 17, nothing

the spinnaker poles.

but a Soverel 33 hull and deck languishing in

Huseby was surprised at the number and

a Portland driveway. Then the 28-year-old

variety of problems other boats experienced.

Hewlett-Packard

“It was amazing how many boats couldn’t get

mechanical

engineer

“I’m getting

dangerous,” the one driving would yell to

- THE REVENGE OF THE WETSNAIL 32

Not all boats were equipped with fresh water showers.

Rainy Bassano of ‘Promotion’ loosens up for her ‘strobe light dance'.

tremendously. During the day, when they could see the waves, they might steer for five hours at a time. Sometimes at night they could only drive 15 minutes before requiring relief.

doing. “We could always tell when the per¬ son driving was changing a tape in the Walkman.” Sting’s pre-race and during-the-race efforts reaped immediate rewards. Putting in 200 miles the second day out, they forged themselves a comfortable lead. Huseby then positioned Sting slightly to the south of the competition, consolidating their advantage. “If we parked, our competition would park, too.” But instead of parking, they kept click¬ ing the nautical miles off and increasing their lead. “We wished there had been more doublehanded entries. After awhile, we started looking to pick off the crewed boats.” All in all, it was an outstanding perfor¬ mance by a couple of guys who had a total of about 1,500 downwind miles prior to the start. We must confess, however, our favorite crew in the whole race were the Southern California doublehanders Mike Casinelli and

ID oublehanding to Hawaii at top speed is not a leisure activity. According to Huseby’s calculations, they did four things. 1. Drive; 2. Sleep; 3. Navigate; and, 4. Eat. On days when they weren’t too tired or busy, they sometimes found time to take a pee. “There was very little chit-chat,” says Huseby, “if you didn’t have something that needed to be done, you layed down and immediately fell asleep.” Even while sleeping, each remained amazingly in tune to how the boat was Eventual IOR winner 'Kathmandu' got a great start out the Gate.

Ned Flohr is ready to sign up for the 1990 race.

Terry Lingenfelder aboard the Wylie 34, Stinger. Doublehanding to Hawaii in your early 50’s may not be a piece of cake, but veterans of many prior TransPac’s, Casinelli and Lingenfelder aren’t about to stop milking life for all its experiences and laughs. You have to picture them out in the mid¬ dle of the Pacific when the main halyard breaks. Oh shit! Never in their long — and very eventful — sailing careers has anything like this happened before. On a masthead rigged boat this wouldn’t be a problem. One of the two of them would ride a spinnaker or jib halyard up to the masthead and rig a new main halyard. The Wylie 34, however, is fractionally rigged, and it’s a long eight feet from the hounds to the masthead. To make a long story short, Casinelli makes three trips up the mast, the second one a three-hour marathon in which he’s banging the insides of his legs all to hell. Because of his additional weight at the top of the mast, the boat is rocking crazily in the waves from side to side. If you’ve never been aloft for a prolonged period in a seaway, you can’t imagine the exertion, the fatigue, and the fear th.at comes with it. During Casinelli’s marathon at the top of the mast, there was a long stretch during which he couldn’t have gotten down without Lingenfelder’s help. At this point the two jokers get into a somewhat macabre discus¬ sion about what would happen if Casinelli died of a heart attack at the masthead, or if Lingenfelder suddenly fell overboard. What would the other do? There was no way Lingenfelder could get his mate down from the top of the mast. And if Lingenfelder fell over, Casinelli would be

1988 WEST MARINE PACIFIC CUP

1988 West Marine Pacific Cup Fleet I0R 18 19 20 21 23

Class Boat ■Sill 2 3 lli 5

Skipper

Type

Kathmandu Swiftsure III Maverick x Sorcerer Petard

Santa Cruz 70 Nelson/Marek 68 Nplson/Marek 68 C&C 30 Farr 36

Etapsed

Phillfpe Kahn George Folgner Les Crouch Greg Cody Clauser/Tosse

09.03-23 0908-02 09 10:28 14:18:55 13:10:33

Corrected

have the membership or physical facilities to come anywhere near close to handling such

03:21.41 04:00:54 04:04:23 04-16:42 04:21:50

an event. The Kaneohe YC, on the other hand, is a big club with tremendous facilities N- for finishing a TransPacific race. Unprompted, finisher after heaped

3 5 6 9 11 13 18 2?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Magic Carpet Promotion Tin Man Ursa Major Camille Kialoa II Gate Crasher

Schooner Crk 42 Santa Cruz 40 Swan 47 Barnett 46 Luffe 44 S&S 73 C&C 41

1109:40 11-00-56 11:13 28 11:20.45 1V11:52 12-16:17 10:18.53 13:16.01

Steve Randier Repass/Rogers Warren Rosendale Ned Flohr Cal Maritime Permar/Bowers Frank Robben Club Nautique

09:08:47 09.19.36 09.20.04 09:22:10 10:01.22 10:05-38 10:10:50 *11*15-43

llflll!! 2 ' 3 maSSM 4 5 a 10 6 7 12 8 15 17 9 24 10 11 28

Saraband Wild Goose Puffin Adlos Alpha Tamarin Me Pousse Ghost Ho’onanea Calliope Wyvern

Nordic 40 LaFitte 44 Liberty 57

Dave King S. & J. Corenman Stuart Wilson Howard Shaw Ralph Wilson Richard Burton Bud Moody Louis Ickler David Brown Frank Morrow Leroy Lamoreaux

14:18-53 12:03:28 12:15:07 12.15:47 12 17 21 14.06:01 13:12:17 14.06:59 13:08:14 14-06-20 ONF

09:04 04 09:05:19 \09.14.06 09.21:05 09.22:05 10:00:14 10 03.13 10.08 07 10:10:05 11:00:02

Soverel 33 J/30 Wylie 34 Santa Cruz 27

HusebyiEaston Rasmussen/Nation Terry & Mike Beiiand/Farreil

12:06:06 14.14:49 14.05:46 14:11:48

10 04 04 11:00:25 11:03:01 11:07:54

Westsail 32 Nordic 40 Freedom 36 Columbia 43 Stephens 47 Sabre 30 Hans Christian 48

;

25 26

2 3 4

the

finisher

graciousness

and

were so good at finishing boats, guiding them through the tricky channel, welcoming them at the docks and making them feel at home. Not a discouraging word was heard on that matter. When competitors

finish

the

L.A.

Honolulu TransPac, the first thing they do is head to the peaceful and lovely other side of Oahu. At Kaneohe Bay, West Marine Pacific Cup finishers are already there.

What a

lovely place to finish! The gorgeous pali’s are in the background, it’s green everywhere, it’s quiet and and there’s not a hotel in sight. The Kaneohe grounds are superb; there are adult and children’s swimming pools, tennis courts, lots of lawn, dirt cheap food and

Doublehanded Sting i Black Knight Stinger Ankle Biter

hospitality of the Kaneohe YC staff, who

PHRF B . 2 4

praise

drinks all day, great showers, and room for most of the boats to pull right up to the bulkhead. As for off-boat accommodations, the Kaneohe side of the island is scattered with either reasonable houses to rent or bed

stuck

the

top

the

mast

forever.

days before the start, the engine lost oil and

and breakfasts at 40 percent the cost of

Somehow the two thought all the possibilities

froze. Who do you call on 4th of July

Waikiki’s luxury tenements. For the many young men who are understandably lusting

— Lingenfelder crossing the finish line with a

weekend when you need a brand new Yan-

dead Casinelli at the top of the mast, or

mar installed in two days. Despite having a

after the thousands of knockout ladies of

Casinelli singlehanding the Pacific at the top

wedding to attend, Tom Hall and two assis¬

Waikiki, it’s only about 25 minutes by bus or

of the mast — were at least as hilarious as

tants pulled off the miracle — with great help

car. Make no mistake, Kaneohe is the place

they were gruesome.

on the part of Promotion’s three-couple

to finish a TransPac.

But that’s how.it is with shorthanded sail¬ ing, which has proven to be a far more powerful was.

mind-expander than LSD ever

Just ask the competitors about the

voices they heard, the strange things they

crew.

Another big difference between the West

Although we never got to talk to any of the crew, early leader Camille fried their SatNav. A detour in the direction of the Big Island cost them dearly in the standings.

saw, the wild dreams they had. Want to get

Then there are the benefits of having a big

high naturally? Just say ‘yes’ to shorthanded

heavy boat. Although Kialoa II displaced

sailing.

more than the other three maxi’s combined, it did enable her to carry the right tools for certain jobs. Like fixing the butt end of the s expected, the West Marine Pacific

spinnaker pole.

The day after it broke,

Cup had its share of unusual breakdowns.

owner Frank Robbens was able to drag out

Calliope, Frank Morrow’s LaFitte 44, got off

the acetylene welding torches and make the

to an embarassing start. While waving good¬

proper repairs.

bye to friends at the dock, the hub of the

The biggest structural change in the new

Martec prop fell off, and the prop went to the

West Marine Pacific Cup is the Kaneohe

bottom. It took them a day to get a new one

Bay,

and restart. You know what happened when

Nawiliwili,

they crossed the finish line at Kaneohe and

Pacific Cups, like Steve Rander of Magic

Oahu

finish

Kauai.

—

Veterans

opposed of

tried to motor in? Yep, the new prop fell off.

Carpet and Jim Corenman of Wild Goose

It was a miracle that Randy Repass’ Santa

were lavish in their praise of the Nawiliwili

Cruz 40, Promotion even made the starting

YC. Nonetheless, they had to confess there

line. While being delivered up the coast two

was just no comparison. Nawiliwili just didn’t

Marine

Pacific

Cup

and

the

traditional

— THE REVENGE OF THE WETSNAIL 32

£5

§$

v if'f

Damage was light this year, such as to ‘Ghost’s spin¬

The Westsail 32 ‘Saraband’, a new look for TransPac winners.

naker sheet.

TransPac, is the spoils. In the L.A. TransPac you get pickle dishes. In the West Marine Pacific Cup, no boat skipper walked away with anything less valuable than a new EPIRB. Literally thousands of dollars of prizes were presented at the awards dinner attended by some 500 people, and you didn’t have to place to win a prize. Top award was probably the Nissan 5 hp out¬ board, worth in excess of $1,000.

I t’s difficult to predict the future, but it would appear that this year’s West Marine Pacific Cup gives the once-flagging Pacific Cup a huge boost and puts her on a new course. A number of entrants like Ned Flohr on Tin Man promised to return for the next

race. Flohr says the Pacific Cup has a big ap¬ peal to the Pacific Northwest PHRF’ers, who are shut out of the dwindling Vic-Maui IOR race. He notes that his heavy 46-ft cruising boat would have to give lots of time to a Frers 50 in that race. Pacific Northwest atten¬ dance in the Pacific Cup has grown each time anywhere; from one or two boats in the past to six this year. The more relaxed atmosphere of the West Marine Pacific Cup was cited as a positive feature by many competitors. Although many entrants said they sailed as hard as in other TransPac’s, most brought more food and crew than normal. Gracious to all finishers, the Kaneohe members turn out in force for their own ‘Ho’onanea.

If we were to pick a single boat that em¬ bodies the “fun race to Hawaii” spirit of the West Marine Pacific Cup, it would probably be Frank Robben’s 73-ft Kialoa. A former winner of the L.A. to Honolulu TransPac that doesn’t have a chance in the world in that race anymore, owners Frank and Mar¬ sha and the 14 crew had a great time on the Pacific trek. First of all, the sailing was delightful and relaxing, partly because there were three watches instead of just two. Secondly, there was the food. Chef Joe cooked 450 sensa¬ tional meals during the trip, including Chateaubriand, comish hens stuffed with ■sausage, lasange, and appetizers such as buffalo wings and ceviche. “I cook for four hours and you eat it in ten minutes,” was his only complaint. Thanks to the watermaker, everybody showered every day or two. “The cleanest ship in the TransPac,” quipped one. Then there was the music that accompanied the meals and daily sundowners. Marsha Robbens played the violin, Chris Brandes the flute, Frank Ansak the recorder and Matthew the bongos. Oh, how can we forget Kango Shimada who’d played guitar on Kialoa? The * Japanese member of the United Nations Staff knew more American traditional songs than the Americans: Tom Dooley, Old Smokey, 500 Miles, When the Saints Come Marching In, The Hawaiian Wedding Song.

Shimada, who drives a Cadillac because he thinks big American cars are safer than little Japanese cars, had a terrific time on the race and someday hopes it will be called the West Marine Pacific Rim Cup. Here! Here! — latitude 38

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UPSTAIRS EASOM BOAT WORKS

MARK RUDIGER

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ick Newick, resident of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachussetts and one of the leading multihull designers in the world today, says that those of us on the west coast have yet to see a really modern trimaran. Those that have plied the Pacific waters, such as Mike Kane’s Crusader, just don’t seem to measure up to east coast standards if we are to believe Newick. Indeed, they may not. Our sailors do, though. One who recently proved that was Sausalito’s Mark Rudiger. In June, he piloted Newick’s latest creation, the 40-foot tri Holsten Ocean Surfer, to second in class and 16th to finish in the 100-boat Carlsberg Singlehanded Trans Atlantic Race (CSTAR). While Mark has extensive monohull ex¬ perience, both on crewed and solo efforts, he had spent relatively little time in multihulls. He took to Surfer with an ease that impressed Newick. “I knew within the first few minutes of meeting Mark,” he says, “that he was a really good sailor.” Mark Rudiger’s shoreside behavior can fool you, though. The 33-year-o!d with the long, freckled limbs, brown hair and moustache and a slightly cockeyed look moves ever so slowly. Not lethargically, just slow¬ ly and deliberately. He takes his time working through a sentence, too, each word following the next in a measured pace. Right, Mark Rudigfer. Spread, 'Ocean Surfer' struts her stuff. BILLY BLACK

MARK RUDIGER

itting in the oiled teak cockpit of his 32-foot sloop Shadowfox (which started life as a Carlson 29 but has been modified since), the blue Sausalito sky high overhead,

phere in the Atlantic between New England

it’s hard not to drift away at times. The sun is

and

hot, since the wind and fogNiave not yet

TransAtlantic race (which he refers to as the

Europe.

Mark had always had the

crept over the hill to the west, and it looks

Olympics of singlehanding) in the back of his'N-

like they may not at all today. You could sink

mind, and it was through a serendipitous

into this laid-back lifestyle, just sitting around

turn of events that this summer’s adventure

shooting the breeze, watching a couple of

took place. But first, let’s turn back the clock a bit.

fellows across the way sanding the wooden decks of an old sloop, talking about breaking

Mark’s dad, Rudolf, was Swiss by birth and,

for a beer in the next few minutes.

among other talents, a professional Alpine

Mark Rudiger is hardly one who has

skier. Mark’s first six years were spent at the

sunken into anything. A regular on the local

base of Heavenly Valley in .South Lake

racing circuit, he is one of those fellows who

Tahoe, where his dad built one of the first

makes a boat go, whether he’s driving, trim¬

houses on Ski Run Boulevard. The second

ming or navigating. He has extensive blue

eldest of four and the only son, Mark grew

water cruising experience,

up skiing.

including two

s ' \

long South Pacific passages he’s made with his wife, Kay, in the past six years. Since 1977, he’s been campaigning singlehanded races,

topped by a victory in the

1984

I n 1959, though, Rudolf took the notion to sail around the world. He packed up his family and went to Poole, England. There

TransPac to Kauai.

they found a 42-foot double-ender and took up residence for a year to prepare for the odyssey. Mark hated England and attending school there. The only joy in his life was sail¬ ing to class every morning in the family’s 10-ft gaff rigged dinghy. “You could say that was the start ovf my singlehanded career,” he says now.

Kay Rudiger congratulates hubby at the finish of the 1986 Singlehanded TransPac.

Rudolf’s circumnavigation never unfolded as planned. When they finally set off, a

were

winter storm hit them in the English Chan¬

courses. They also spent time in Switzerland

taking

American

correspondence

nel. “We floundered our way into France on

where Rudolf, who had experience in elec¬

top of a flood and in the middle of an oil

tronics

spill,” Mark recalls. “We got the shit kicked

American sales rep for Telefunken. In 1964,

out of us.” They finally made it to Spain, but

they were taking the boat to Italy when a fire

took a hard left for a two-year residence

broke out. Rudolf was the only one onboard

there and cruising the Mediterranean rather

at the time, and he abandoned ship shortly

and

television,

worked

before it blew.

ark’s mom had had enough. The

family Rudiger returned first to Lake Tahoe, then to San Francisco in 1966. Their new boat was a Newport 20, which Mark and Rudolf raced in MORA. Skiing became a sport of the past as Mark took to sailing full¬ time. Among his rides were dinghies such as

i :

the 420 and OK, Rolfe Croker’s Cal 36 Ano Nuevo and Cal 39 Tenacity, the Columbia 39 Jigtime, the Morgan One Ton Shear¬

duty.

"Holsten

really is good

beer,"

water, the Kettenburg 40 Marilyn and Bill

says

Rudiger. “No kidding.”

than risk more open ocean misadventures.

Clute’s Ericson 39 Chiquita. More recently

Living onboard and discovering new ports

he’s been on Bill Erkelens’ Wylie 40 Lois

of call was like a “full-time Disneyland” for

Lane, Irv Loube’s Frers 46 Bravura and Clute’s Annabelle Lee.

Like multihulls, singlehanded ocean rac¬

8-year-old Mark. He and Rudolf spent time

ing on the west coast is still relatively low key

together sailing and racing dinghies. Formal

You would be safe in presuming that a

compared to the pressure cooker atmos¬

education was sporadic, although the kids

nine-to-five existence was never meant for page I 32

- THE OCEAN SURFER

Kay virtually rebuilt Shadowfox. They added a winged keel, moved the rudder aft two

p 1

feet, installed a solid dodger, redesigned the bow and cold molded a new hull exterior inancing his dream was another issue.

with Kauri wood.

His friendship with Bill Edinger, which had

The trip was also Mark’s real introduction

started back in the early 1970’s when they

to ocean multihull sailing on the Crowther

both worked at Sausalito’s Baumann and

40 trimaran Bullfrog, which was first to finish

Miller chandlery, grew into a partnership.

in the race to Hawaii. Mark went racing with

Today, their Edinger Marine Services handles heating and refrigeration systems,

skipper Ian Johnston and his lady Cathy

corrosion control, air conditioning and pro¬

the boat and Mark showed them some tips

pane systems. “We learned as we went,”

on racing tactics and how to tack downwind.

says Mark. They also worked out a deal that allowed one to sail while the other worked

Mark liked what he saw. Concurrently, things were

and vice versa.

back in Sausalito. Peter Hogg, owner of the

Hawkins. They taught him about how to sail

happening

Still, Mark saw that going it alone would

Newick 40 catamaran Tainui, had asked

be a hard road. He sensed the need for a

Mark if he would join him for the 1988

more intimate partner, out knew that “she

doublehanded race around Australia. Mark

would have to pass a rather rigorous initia¬ tion test.” In 1977, he met Kay. She was in¬

said sure, as long as they didn’t sail a proa

terested in the ‘Rudiger Challenge’. First,

boats, which require flying a hull to reach

outrigger or a catamaran. Mark knew those

there was the windy trip to the Farallones,

maximum potential, can be dangerous at

followed by a Channel Island cruise. Kay

sea. A trimaran, on the other hand, acts

passed with flying colors, according to Mark,

more like a monohull. While Mark and Kay were in the South

and she was interested in sharing the time and money requirements that it would take

Pacific,

to go cruising. They’ve lived aboard and sailed Shadowfox together ever since.

When Shadowfox returned to the Bay Area

Hogg was doing his homework.

Mark competed in the 1986 singlehanded

over to dinner at Hogg’s. Mark was surprised

in September 1987, her crew was invited

Mark. In 1972, he and his dad embarked on a business venture designing and building white water kayaks and canoes. Called “Go Boats,” with 12 and 15-foot versions, they were self-rescuing and could be paddled or sailed with a Laser-type rig. They built 100 of them in four years in their San Rafael shop. Mark

also

became

interested

beach

catamarans at the time, and he and his friend Mike Sweeney took on building a C Class cat as well. “Cats were the ultimate in speed,” says Mark. If wanderlust is hereditary, then Mark in¬ herited a dose from Rudolf. After taking a

‘Shadowfox’ started out as a Carlson 29 Mark has made so many modifications, though, that “Rudiger 32“ would be more accurate these days.

crack at naval architecture, he fixed on the Idea of — what else? — buying a boat and sailing around the world. Unlike his dad, though, he wanted to do it singlehanded. “Being a control person by nature — you could call me a tiller hog — I like to drive and trim according to my own plan. With a crew you’re always second-guessing.” Enter Shadowfox, which was then painted

cd LL)

o o

blue and was not exactly in seagoing $hape. In their first race, the 1977 singlehanded

Farallones contest, Mark led his class to the

< Z

rocks but took a nasty knockdown on the return that broke the skeg and bent the rud¬ der post. Without an engine, he had to rely

race to Hawaii, failing to repeat his victory in

on his wits and limped home. “It felt good to

1984. But the race was a jumping off point

along with blueprints for a brand new, third

overcome those obstacles,” he says.

for a cruise to New Zealand, where he and

generation 40-foot trimaran. Newick, who

page I 3 3

to find Dick and Pat Newick there as well,

MARK RUDIGER i

has been designing multihulls since 1957, is perhaps best known for Moxie, the 60-foot trimaran which Phil Weld sailed to victory in the 1980 singlehanded TransAtlantic race, then known as OSTAR. “I told him the boat looked great,” recalls

he canting mast, fabricated by Rick

Haslet of Martha’s Vineyard out of strip planked spruce with carbon fiber,

offers N

more stability and drive. By moving the base to leeward when the boat is heeled over, you reduce the depressing moment

(i.e.

the

downward pressure) of the rig, which in turn lightens the apparent weight of the boat. You can also play with the slot between the main

and jib,

which is sensitive to ad¬

justments as small as two or three inches. Finally, tri’s tend to have a lee helm while reaching and by playing with the mast you can balance the helm as well as raise the Mark. “Then 1 asked him when was he going to build it. He pulled out some pictures of the

centerboards for less wetted drag.N In

October,

Mark

flew

. Mattha’s

boat being built by Nat Bryant in North

Vineyard to test sail Ocean Surfer. He and

Falmouth, Massachusetts. I couldn’t believe

Newtek hit it off and Mark loved the boat. “It

it! Newick told me that he and his partner Alan Butler had built it on speculation. They

was strong,

were still without a sponsor or a skipper.

alike on the subject of ocean racing: not only

Peter and 1 talked about my sailing it in the

do you get there, but you get there first.”

CSTAR and then shipping it to Australia for the

doublehanded race.

could

compete

three

We figured we oceans

fast,

state-of-the-art

—

and

available,” he says. “And Dick and I thought

By March 15, Ocean Surfer still didn’t have a corporate sponsor, which would be

six

needed to foot the $60,000 to $70,000 bill.

months.” Newick, who attended UC Berkeley in the

Mark decided to gamble that somehow the

early 1950’s (where had captained the sail¬

Nassau to catch up with the boat. He com¬

ing team that included Lowell North and Bill

pleted his qualifying sail by the March 30th

money could be found, and headed off to

Ficker), says that his interest is fast sailboats,

deadline

no matter how many hulls. The 40-foot

prepare for the feeder race to England via

design he showed Mark and Peter was called

Bermuda. It wasn’t mandatory to do the

and

proceeded

Florida

feature was the canting mast. Mounted on a track, the base of the spar can be swung from

Newick design, Steve Black’s Eagle Premier, beat him to Plymouth, but Mark had *put

Ocean Surfer. Perhaps its most outstanding The nav station/galley/main salon — 'Surfer' doesn't have a big interior.

6,000 miles under his stern in two months and was ready for CSTAR. Compared to monohull sailing, Mark says trimarans roll very little, track extremely well and are able to sail themselves fast. Upwind in winds up to 30 knots apparent, because of their tremendous stability, light weight and minimal resistance, they continue to ac¬ celerate. The downside is that you have to be very attentive, since ‘escape velocity’ is easily reached. Capsizing and pitchpoling are constant dangers. The speed and light¬ ness are also nerve wracking, and the boats are mentally and physically harder to sail, but at those greater speeds you spend less time at sea. “When the conditions are right,” says Mark, “you can really knock off a lot of miles. In my training runs 1 averaged about 270 miles a day.”

side to side. Newick got the idea from wind-

preliminary singlehanded, but Mark thought

S ailing into Plymouth, England, stirred

surfers, which, he says, have “a lot to teach

the experience would be valuable, which

many old memories for Mark. There were

those of us with slower boats.”

proved to be the case. Another 40-foot

castles onshore and a myriad of colorful page I 34

- THE OCEAN SURFER lize and the boats that stayed north benefi¬ ted. A passing low brought more wind and Mark ground down the boats he had lost, but still couldn’t catch MTC. He finished second in class and 16th overall. Both Mark and Dick Newick were disap¬ pointed, although neither faults the boat. Mark, after realizing this was his first TransAtlantic race and first multihull race, eased up on himself, too. MTC had twice the buoyancy of Ocean Surfer and ten feet more rig, making her more light air efficient. “I would like to do it again,” says Mark. “1 know 1 have the ability and now I have the revenge factor in my favor, too.” Hogg’s plans to ship the boat to Australia and race doublehanded didn’t materialize, so Mark’s back in Sausalito now. There’s work to do on Shadowfox, and he’s got to sort work out with Bill Edinger. And there’s more sailing to do. “I’ll go out on anything with a sail that per¬ forms well, and I’ll cruise some more too,” he says, ever the eclectic. Multihulls look good, and so do maxi monohulls. He’d like to take a crack at the Transpacific multihull record, and then there’s the Formula 40 professional race circuit. Newick adds that Ocean Surfer is for sale “at far less than the $250,000 we have invested in it.” Perhaps, as he argues, it’s time for the west coast to experience a ‘real’ trimaran.

the Mull 30 'Sparky' back from the Farallones.

boats on the water. The Brits, being an island people, welcome those who sail to their shores, especially the TransAtlantic racers. There were some familiar faces to welcome him as well, including Bullfrog’s Ian Johnston and Cathy Hawkins, Hans Bernwall from Sausalito’s Scanmar Marine, Dick Newick and fellow Sausalitan and CSTAR racer, Mike Reppy, sailing the Shuttleworth 42 trimaran Damiana. The bulk of the fleet was made up of Americans, English and French sailors. The latter, with their full sponsorships, pushy media crews and different language, were the ‘Klingons’ in Star Trek talk. The Yanks and Brits tended to bond together. Few in this group had full financial backing. Mark’s sponsor, Holsten Bier, came on¬ board as he was sailing to England. Not only did they pitch in $25,000, but having extra cases of good, strong beer to oil the wheels of bureaucracy helped. “1 needed some welding done the day page 135

before one of the warm up races,” Mark recalls. “The fellows at the shop told me there was no way they could get to it that day, but 1 came back with a case of Holsten and they said ‘Sure thing, mate!’ ”

IB y the starting gun, Mark was ready to go. Holsten Ocean Surfer would be favored in nasty weather, which frequently visits the TransAtlantic fleet. For the first week, things went pretty well according to plan and Mark led his class or was tied with Nick Bailey’s 40-foot trimaran MTC. The glass enclosed cockpit with its forward facing seat — Mark calls it his ‘F-14’ — paid big dividends. He was protected from the cold North Atlantic weather and, with the wheel mounted on the side of the cockpit, he sat facing forward and didn’t have to crane his neck to the side for hours at a time. Halfway through the race, the wind went light. Finding himself near the iceberg flow from the Arctic, Mark headed south, antici¬ pating the southwesterlies that fill in near New England. Those winds didn’t materia¬

lATITUDE'IR

Mark is also a fan of ULDB boats. Here he's driving

Mark

helped

develop

Margas.

self-contained

propane system for boats.

Such a situation would balance the books. We showed them what a good sailor looks like, and it looks like Mark Rudiger. — shimon van collie

WIND, GUTS AND CREWCUTS —

C C'T* he Northwest gang did it this year!” 1 exhorted Barry Bristol as he pumped the hand of fellow division winner Bill Stange. The scene was the awards ceremony in Hanalei Bay, Kauai; the event, the 1988 Singlehanded TransRac.

Barry was right on. He and Stange, of Seattle and Port Townsend respectively, not only won Divisions II and I (also respec¬ tively) , but Stange beat the monohull record that has stood since the inception of this race in 1978. It was a windy one right from the June 25 start. Most of the 14 competitors went out the Gate with a reef tied in and didn’t shake it out until the third day. Several participants, including Bristol and Peter Hogg on the firstto-finish catamaran Tainui, also came down with a flu-like bug that kept them nauseous and sleepy those same three days. Thank goodness for autopilots. Stange’s participation was more seren¬ dipitous than most. He’d been interested in doing the race on his Olson 30 Intense for a while, “But it felt like reinventing the wheel,” says Bill. “You know, who do you talk to when everybody lives down in San Fran¬ cisco?” Then one day he walked into the Crow’s Nest, a marine supply store in Seat¬ tle, and who was behind the counter but Barry Bristol. Barry had done the ’86 race, and was full of friendly information for the newcomer. With Barry’s help, Bill decided that ’88 was the year he would do the 2,120-mile bienniel race from San Francisco to Kauai.

ike many, Stange wanted to go south of rhumbline to avoid any mischief from the Pacific High. “I picked 130 west, 30 north

and after the start I just blasted off for that,’ he says. However, after listening in on con¬ versations between the more northerly boats

Division winners Barry Bristol (left) and Bill Stange press flesh at the awards ceremony.

for a couple days — they were getting plenty of wind — he turned toward Hawaii &nd went rhumb from then on. Plenty of wind was the order of the race. No parking lots this time around, at least none anybody found. The lightest it got was was 10 knots for a few hours, then it would pipe back up to 20 or 25 from the northeast — perfect for sailing fast. Bill had many exciting moments, like the time he buried the boat in the back of a wave — “I mean buried; it filled the whole cockpit.” Another time, his ghetto blaster’s batteries ran down while the boat was surfing under spinnaker. “I needed to get six batteries for it,” he says. Easier said than done when the boat needs to be hand steered. “I got the boat to where it would self-steer for a few seconds, then I’d lock the tiller and run below. I found four batteries right away, but it’s those last two that did me in. About the third trip down, I felt the boat start to go. I ran up just as it broached. When it came up, I had the tiller in one hand and two batteries in the other. The other batteries and the radio were gone.” On July 2, at 3:00 in the morning, Intense’s boom broke, apparently due to fatigue at the vang. “I lowered the main and attached it to the toe rail so I could keep sailing while I fixed

the boom,” says Bill. “I put everything I could find into the two halves — the spare tiller; the boat brush handle broken in three V pieces; the oar — then pushed them together and lashed up the whole mess. It held the rest of the way.” No such luck with the spinnaker pole track. A few days after the boom fix, the pole tore a one foot section of track right off the mast. No problem, thought Bill, just attach it lower. That section pulled off the next day. Bill clipped the pole to the remaining foot or so of upper track and took some lashings around the mast. That lasted two days before ripping off. “From then, I just tied the end of the pole to the mast. It made jibing a hassle.”

1988 SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC

battle on board Coaster, his Crealock 37.

wind was so good 1 basically went rhumbline.

But we’d have been surprised if he had.

My best day’s run was close to 200 miles and

Barry built the boat from a bare hull six years

the boat never got under seven knots. When

ago, and in the years of living aboard since

has set the boat up for extensive singlehand¬

trimming.

did

slow

seven,

was

out there

ing. (He soloed down from Washington to

Barry finished four hours short of 15 days.

San Francisco and plans to singlehand back here before heading to Mexico.) Aside from

Though Coaster was the first Division II boat across the line, he had to wait three days for

blowing out a light genoa. Coaster suffered

the higher-rating boats to finish before claim¬

few problems, though Barry says he pushed

ing the corrected win.

the boat like never before. “This is a heavy boat, but I was serious about racing it hard. Before the race, I took

I n

its third consecutive Singlehanded

out 1,000 pounds of gear, which put the

TransPac, Peter Hogg’s Newick 40 cata¬

boat four inches above her lines.

maran Tainui once again put in a fine perfor¬

“In the ’86 race, I went south and got

mance — if you don’t count trying to kill its

caught for days without wind. This time, the

skipper. With all the wind and a newer, off the miles — 280 in a day was around his

'Intense'.

best. But the boat tried to pitch-pole seven

BOB CRANMER-BROWN

taller, more powerful rig, Peter was clocking It was indeed a thumbs-up trip for Bill Stange and

‘Etosha’ shreds a headsail.

times on the crossing, one time nosing into a cross-swell so far Peter was standing on the side of his small cabin. “I had several conver¬ sations with my maker,’’ he says. It wasn’t his only problem. Only a few days out, Tainui hit a discarded fishing net that tweaked the rudders and pulled some fittings loose, which flooded the aft compart¬ ments of both hulls. The boat also blew up both its spinnakers. Peter finished under main and reacher. “This race was too much bloody work!” he says, laughing. Tainui finished in 11 days, 11 hours, a full day behind the record set in the 1986 race by the Australian trimaran Bullfroq. Tainui was also first to finish in 1984. To give you some idea of his perfor-

WIND, GUTS AND CREWCUT5 mance, Bill Stange finished only five hours later. The third boat in was Dave Hamilton’s Grey Ghost. Hamilton’s terrific performance was one of the more pleasant surprises of the race.

the fact when he dug into his “halfway”

Though

designed Zaal 38 rated the same as the

ice cream. Dave was one of the few singlehanders to

Olson 30s, and kept close enough to Stange

see another competitor on the way over.

— actually ahead a few times — that the two

About three days from the finish line, he

kept radio contact the whole way across.

passed'Etpsha hove to and talked to skipper

ultralight,

'the

Dutch-

Dave finished less than four hours behind

Bob Cranmer-Brown. A series of mechani¬

Intense. “Other than the fact that 1 never got a day

cal glitches had

off, this was a great race,” says Hamilton,

steering for two days straight. He finally

stolen

power from the

60-footer’s electrics and Bob had been hand

who came up from Santa Barbara for the

“pulled off to the side of the rqad” to get

event. “When 1 did this race in ’82, it took 21

some rest. (“When I heard that,” says Bill Stange, “I

days, but I was much more rested.” How could a displacement boat do that

realty started racing!”)

well against a surfing Olson 30? Well, for

“Eight days out — about 1-700 miles — I

one thing, “Dave sailed a damn fine race,”

was running two days ahead of the record,”

says Peter

with an

says Cranmer-Brown. “I even thought I had

autopilot steering, Dave could spend a lot

a chance at the multihull record (10 days, 10

more time pulling strings than Bill Stange

hours).” Then Murphy channeled aboard.

Hogg.

For another,

and the others on the ULDB boats. In that

First, the self-steering quit one afternoon

sense, there are fundamentally two types of

while Etosha’s biggest chute was flying (60-ft

boats that do this race: those that must be hand steered for maximum potential, and

hoist;

those that steer themselves,

even under

43-ft across the shoulders).

LATITUbE'IOHNR

not

“That

meant 1 couldn’t take the damn thing down,” says Bob. So he just held on and steered

through the night and all the next day,

average of 15 hours a day. Dave Hamilton didn’t hand steer at all. ’Ghost also has a few

intending to get the beast down when the

Above, Peter Hogg damns the torpedos. Below, at

wind died at dusk. Except it didn’t die; it

the start (I to r), ‘Coaster’, ‘Sacred Dance’ and

more amenities than most. To the disgust of

increased to about 25 knots.

‘Predator’.

spinnaker.

Bill

Stange

hand

steered

1988 SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC “I thought it would be great to finish under spinnaker, but when I put it up, it popped open under the bow and the boat ran it Bob needed a break. He tried the self¬ steering again and it kicked in momentarily. It was now or never. “On a boat with a large boom, blanketing the spinnaker isn’t hard. But on a ketch like F.tosha, the main boom not only isn’t as long, but the mizzen sets up this wind-tunnel effect ...” the result of which was when he let the guy off, the spinnaker stood straight out from the top of the mast. Bob winched the sheet down to deck level and began gathering. Of course the sail went partially in the water, which required more work for the weary Cranmer-Brown. “I think that was the hardest physical thing I’ve ever done in my life,” says Bob. It took an hour to get the sail down and until 2:00 the next day to clear the tangle of sheets. Soon after, the autopilot quit again; Bob later traced it to low batteries due to charging problems. He shortened sail and set up the vane. Within an hour, the vane1 steering cable broke. There was nothing to do but self-steer. “In all I spent 48 of 50 hours hand steer¬ ing,” says Bob. “And that was enough. I sailed until two or three hours before dawn, then heaved to and went to sleep." Bob toasted Dave Hamilton when Grey Ghost sailed by, only about 400 yards away.

I n the “One day I’ll laugh about this” department, Carl Nelson, sailing Cheers, one of two other Olson 30s in the race, missed the finish line and ended up sailing halfway around Kauai before realizing his mistake. The race committee had seen him go by the line early in the morning, but since he didn’t come up on the radio (Carl also had low battery problems), they figured he was just a local out for a sail. He didn t actu¬ ally finish until 6 p.m., but the race commit¬ tee officially recognized his 8 a.m. finish, since he almost passed through the finish line. Carl also broke a boom, substituting an extra spinnaker pole for it. Runner up to Cheers in the same category was Jack Morse on the Tahiti 32 ketch Hard¬ tack. Jack’s windvane, a new and heretofore little-used unit, wouldn’t work. For 13 days. Jack cussed and cajoled it to no avail. The way he tells it, he finally gave the vane a good boot and stomped disgustedly below. When he came up, the boat was tracking like it was on rails. Surveying the situation, he discovered he’d set the vane 180 degrees out, and the kick got it back on track! Troubles of a wetter kind bothered Lydia page 139

Singlehanded TransPac Results Type CLASS f MULTIHULL t. Talnui Newtek 40 cat CLASS 1 MONOHULL l Intense 2 Grey Ghost 3 Rolling Stone

Homeport

Peter Hogg

Mill Valley

Bill Stange

35 : : .

6 Quatro Equis 7 Quest

Skipper

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CLASS II MONOHULL Crealock 37 2 Joshua H Hawk farm 28 3 Predator J Hardtack 5. Sacred Dance Bristol 27

Port Townsend 1 Robbie Robinson : Carl Nelson Lydia Bird Paul Steinert Chuck Von Schatscha Richmond

Barry Bristol Bob Carroll

Gary McLuen

Bird, this year’s only woman entrant sailing the Santa Cruz 27 Colibri. One of the things she hadn’t had time to do was waterproof the windows in the boat. As a result, “for the first two days, it was like a rain forest below. I had plastic bags over the Loran, SatNav, food, everything.” She’d also gone off with a sleep debt, and by day three, she’d had it. “I hove to and basically spent the day dry¬ ing the boat, duct-taping all the windows, and resting.” It was 12 hours of downtime, but worth every minute to the refreshed Lydia. Like many others, though, she was more interested in enjoying the race than “spend-

Gary McLuen before and after the finish. Several other racers sported similar ‘streamlining'.

ing my life on the tiller,” she says. So, depending on how competitive she felt, she usually only hand steered five or six hours a day. Twin headsails and autopilot did the duty the rest of the time, except for the last day.

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down. That took a while to undo, and I sailed the last four or five hours with the afterguy wrapped around the rudder.”

T he Singlehanders insisted on thanks where it’s due — to the St. Francis YC for allowing competitors the use of their docks the week preceding the race; to West Marine, for help and gift certificates; and a special thanks to Greg Pryor. Race chairman Fred Joyce found Greg on the beach in Hanalei, and after a few beers (well, a lot of beers), got him to donate himself and his 24-ft fishing boat Joya II to act as shoreboat for the incoming racers. Speaking of finishing and shoreside, ’88 Singlehanders added a couple of new foot¬ notes to race history. For the first time, everybody finished within the 21-day time limit. Also for the first time, four or five finishers underwent radical hair/beard cuts upon arrival in Hawaii. Particularly unrecognizable were the formerly shaggy Jack Morse and Gary McCluen. Singlehand¬ ing does do strange things to people .... All in alii the people involved rated this year’s race one of the best. Many swore to return in ’90. If all goes as planned, that fleet should be substantially bigger. In fact, by the time this issue hits the streets, race packets for the 1990 Singlehanded TransPac should be ready (Box 1716, Mill Valley, CA 94941 if you’re interested). Also, organizers will soon start pushing for more national and worldwide competition in 1990. This race has come of age, they say, and it’s time to make it a truly international event. — latitude — jr

NALU IV

he Red Sea was going to be “the shits”! That was a ‘given’ for us aboard the Alameda-based Nalu IV, a 48-ft wood Lapworth design, before we’d begun our pass¬ age from Asian waters to those of Africa and

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY 'NALU IV’ the boat in his van. Food prices in Djibouti are comparable to those in the United States, the exception being eggs, which are 50

and because the provisioning was supposed to be much easier there. Despite being shocked by the terrible conditions the people X

IliiiKMiiN ■ '■'

Arabia. The approximately 1,600-mile Red Sea transit is a hurdle Similar tp bringing a boat back to San Francisco from Cabo San Lucas. But for circumnavigators wanting to either avoid South Africa or see the Med, the Red Sea is the only option. As things turned out, the passage from the Indian Ocean 'to the Med aboard Nalu IV wasn’t as bad as we expected. It certainly wasn’t as grim as our trek along the west coast of Australia. In fact our main disen¬ chantment was not with the Red Sea or its weather, but with the discouraging condi¬ tions in some of the countries we visited. Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemefi, the Sudan and Egypt are not the garden spots of our planet. Our approach to the Red Sea was a 14-day, 2,209-mile passage from Sri Lanka to barren Djibouti. Known as French Somaliiand before achieving so-called indepen¬ dence in 1977, the French presence in this ‘ African country seems to be as pervasive as ever. The port is filled with French naval ves. sels, French sailors, and even the French P/sroirm 1Legion. omnn Pi trthovmrvro ouonithmn ic Foreign Furthermore, everything is seemingly geared to French interests. The language is French, the currency is French, the yacht club is French. So much for Africa, it would seem, except that the native population is a mix of Ethiopian refugees, local Afars, Issas and Somalians, all of whom are either devastated by 50% unemployment, fleeing from famine, or trvina to avoid the fiferoetual hostilities be-

ging begins at dawn and continues till dark. Just one in ten is literate.

!tff! must endure, Djibouti was indeed a good place to provision. Iri the native market we bought lettuce, avocados, tomatoes, oranges, grapefruit, apples and the like. As the French markets were very expensive, we purchased canned Mediterranean Sea

Harm* h

Sudan

, *

■* Quit of Aden

^ \

Ethiopia

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, Above, ‘Naiu IV's Red Sea itinerary: spread, the Suez Canal was tike motoring in a giant irrigation

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e’d selected Djibouti because it of-

cents each — they’re flown in from France — and diesel, which is $2 a gallon. But the Sunni Moslem country was not without its redeeming qualities. They had the %. least red tape of any port we have visited, for had .acquired visas in Singa>re, and even though- they were out of we were stamped in, registered, and < l|p4 ie with the whole process in less than 10 minutes! Clearing out was to be equally swift, although we had to pay about $18 in fees tor' thin^liHe||ewage disposal and. Inspections,.’'7 In Djibouti, where per capita income hovers at $420 a year, there is no distinction betweeh private yachts and merchant vessels. * %’&• Another, big plus was the United States Embassy in Djibouti. The staff;1 fewer than 20 including a Marine detachment, was just great. They insisted we register with them.in i the event our family became concerned and started looking for us. They, also-gave us good Information on places to visit and avoid in the Red Sea. , . ■ This was topped .off by an invitation to join them at their Monday Night Movie at the' i Marine House. We saw ajl three reefe of^e. Mission at an outdoor patio under a full : moon With1 rriOst of the United States Em¬ bassy staff and their families —• including two. new babies in attendance. If was really a piece of home. Later At and Susarrtrried--.* . ; bauer (he is the communications officer) 'arid '1 Their son Mark joined us aboard Nalu for evening dripks and a telling, of The skrppif’t ancient jokes. . \

mm at a newly opened Italian

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THE RED SEA BLUES

* isillusioned as we'd been by the city of Djibouti, the tiny town of Obock, just outside the strait, was a dream come true. Sitting at anchor at sunset, we watched a camel cara¬ van climb a dirt road and disappear into the scrubby desert. The people were dressed in colorful robes and headpieces The next

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Mandab at night to assure a daylight arrival at the Hannish Islands, which are reputed to have the very best diving in the Red Sea. We arrived at noon, four hours ahead of sched¬ ule, thanks to a favorable conspiracy of the Wind and current. The Red Sea diving was'to have been the .paving grace of a difficult Red Spa transit:

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1 But once again, reality was out of kilter with our expectations. The water at the Hannish . Islands was extremely clean and there were f amazing corals and the largest tropical fish we’d ever seen. But, after seven months of diving in the tropics, we weren’t prepared for the cooler water. After ten minutes we’d struggle back into the dinghy, blue and shak¬ ing with chills. {And yes- this 's at 14 degrees.). The other thing we’d forgotten about over the previous few months was the sharks. They were abundant in the Hannish Islands, making us wary.

ur departure from these islands was delayed when the fabled strange winds of the Red Sea made their first appearance; 40 knots from the south. Although this would have left us with a downwind sail in our desired direction, the size of the waves was so great and the period so short that we decided another day of diving — despite the cold was in order.

NALU IV During the night we dragged and had to reset in 50 knot gusts. Shortly after dawn we dragged again and were forced to put Mr. Danforth out to keep Mr. CQR company. Naturally the wind chose that moment to subside to 30 knots; so we pu^up the chute and headed for the largest country in Africa, the Sudan, 500 miles to the north. Just as quickly as our big southerly had ar¬ rived, it died out. So there we were, off the coast of Ethiopia, which despite momumental natural and self-inflicted problems, was an established nation before the birth of Christ. Because of border fighting, internal fighting and pirates along its coast, we were advised not to stop in Ethiopia. Thus we spent the last 36 hours before Port Sudan motoring in flat seas. We were compensated for our motoring however, since we could haul in the towing generator and put out the fish line. A day be¬ fore having to resort to iron rations, we hooked a big barracuda for dinner. After our resident icthyologist entertained us by dis¬ secting the catch and lecturing on fish anatomy (I’m still not sure I buy the part about the ear bones), we had a delicious meal. Surprised and dismayed by a first-hand view of the poverty and human misery in Djibouti, the Sudan was different. To be sure, there was plenty of the same poverty, misery, dirt, filth and decay, but its effect was softened by a bit of French fluff.

D ecay, it would seem, is the normal state of affairs in this once-bustling British colonial seaport. Since the British and Egyp¬ tians, who co-ruled, pulled out in 1956, the parks, public buildings, hotels, clubs, streets and gardens haven’t seen a kind hand. A former surveyor, captain Jim curiously in¬ spected the insides of buildings like the post office. After careful examination, he’d decid¬ ed if it weren’t for the cobwebs the structures would collapse. Other systems are prey to decay also. It’s impossible to place or receive an interna¬ tional phone call in Port Sudan, one of the country’s most important cities. Even getting a call through to the capital of Khartoum is iffy. Delivery of letters couldn’t be assured either. Officials recommend you personally supervise the cancelling of the stamp on your letter so it wouldn’t be peeled off and reused. Many large and huge dumpsters were thoughtfully placed for trash along the streets of Port Sudan. Unfortunately, their presence seemed permanent and nobody bothered to empty them. This was fine with the goats, camels, crows, dogs, cats — and humans —

flowing when we departed. Security in the area was good, however, as the navy patrols the harbor and the gates. We never could V quite figure out if the patrols were to keep us in or the locals out. But the guards at the gate insisted on inspecting our knapsacks and bags. The poverty — the annual per capita in¬ come is even less than in Djibouti — did not limit the availability of foodstuffs, but they re¬ quire some creative negotiations to obtain. Flour and sugar, for instance, are not avail¬ able in the marketplace because they are subsidized commodities given directly to the citizens. And even though donkey carts laden with 100-lb sacks of these staples are everywhere in town, it’s not possible to make a direct purchase. Thus you have to resort to options.

See the pyramids along the Nile . . .

who regularly dined on the contents. Animals such as cows, goats, oxen and camels are permitted to wander/graze in town, with the result that you’d have to be an O.J. Simpson in his prime to avoid all the droppings. The animals are retrieved only when they bear young, and then only for milking. Although many yachts stop at Port Sudan, there are no special accomodations for them. The tiny anchorage which had just five boats upon our arrival was crammed to over¬

1 he one we used was to have the agent who arranged our fuel (you need one) to also provide sugar and flour. Other cruisers told us it was also possible to obtain through money changers — if you’d trade currency with them. The Sudanese are so desperate for dollars, pounds sterling, etc, that such side deals are simply “tacked on” to the ex¬ change rate. Making the provisioning process even more unsettling was the fact that store shelves were lined with canned goods mark¬ ed, “Not for sale, gift of. . .’’Do some of the Sudanese feel that getting cash is better than eating whatever might be in the tins? Or is somebody hijacking the donated food and selling it? Like Djibouti to the south, the Sudan has an influx of Ethiopians fleeing the many horrors of that country. It’s discourag¬ ing to see that the international aid doesn’t necessarily seem to be getting to those in need. Sudan was the most strictly Moslem coun¬ try that we visited. Unlike Djibouti or Egypt (which we would soon visit), liquor was completely forbidden, even in duty free shops. Women were very covered up and few were seen doing other than domestic chores. Businesses only employed men. Observance of the five daily prayers was more obvious than other countries. In the middle of a transaction, for example, a carpet could be pulled out and prayers begun. The strict Moslem rule has been in force since 1984 and is apparently the cause of

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civil war in the Sudan. Although there is little discussion of the problems, the southern and wealthiest part of the Sudan is controlled by Christians who feel they have been disen¬ franchised. Their guerilla war apparently is about to bear fruit; we’re told they will be given some representation in government and that, as one person put it, “they’ll be able to drink all they want”.

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Djibouti, we encountered an American enclave. This one was called ‘Camel House’ and consisted of two Air Force men. They operated as an outpost from the embassy in Khartoum. Since there was little for them to do but tend to their own personal security, they looked out for American cruisers travelling the Red Sea. As a result, we benefitted from their laundry, showers and library of videos. We saw. Top Gun and Mannequin — that made three movies in less than a month — which is more than we’d see in a year back home! Upon leaving Port Sudan, we expected the strong north winds that normally make the Red Sea so unappealing to cruisers. For once, we got what we expected. It took five days of beating in 15 to 45 knots winds to make 650 miles to the next port. Unlike long ocean beats, the wind varied constantly. Thus we were almost always overcanvassed or undercanvassed — and never ‘just right’ for more than half an hour. As the winds were predominently north¬ westerly, we would find ourselves beating along the eastern shore of the Red Sea next to Yemen and later Saudi Arabia. Then we’d tack almost straight across to the Sudanese and Egyptian coasts,-then back across to the eastern shore again to start the whole exer¬ cise over. It made us feel that the Red Sea is very big. In fact, it’s long and narrow; only about 150 miles wide at this point. No won¬ der Moses made it across so quickly! Hurghada was our first port of call in Egypt and our first introduction to real cor¬ ruption, bribery and prevarication. The town is being developed as a major tourist center and already has a huge Sheraton Hotel perched on the water’s edge. But travelling through Egypt as a tourist and as a cruiser are two entirely different things. All boats are regarded with suspicion, and the armed guards standing on the bow of your boat are a constant reminder that you are not really free to come and go.

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the one with his eyes open.

We had obtained Egyptian visas before sailing, which simplified our entry pro¬ cedure. Even so, we were boarded, in¬ spected and then required to fill out declara¬ tions concerning all types of electronic and photographic equipment. The boat after us had to declare all firearms and liquor, but was never asked about electronics. We then had to go into town to complete the im¬ migration procedure, as our passports had been taken from us when we arrived and it was left to us to find and claim them.

O ffices in Egypt open early in the morning, close at midday, then open for about three hours in the early evening. Try¬ ing to find a government office after dark in a strange town is no easy task. But we had motivation; we were in a foreign country without our passports. Having completed that arduous task, we were harassed by guards when we attempted to get back to the port area! Showing them our stamped passports didn’t help. We final¬ ly had to have an English-speaking local in¬ tervene on our behalf. Although we were never personally harassed again, our crew was prevented from coming into the com¬ pound early one morning and had to sit at the front gate until someone from inside took the situation in hand. The owner of Whitby Lass, a small Australian yacht, attempted to bring a few jerry jugs of fuel to his boat in order to leave port. This was not permitted, and he was told he needed to have an agent to buy fuel. When the agent didn’t show up at the ap¬ pointed time, we sold some of our excess fuel to the skipper. We were later told that it’s standard practice in Egypt to harass yachties by refusing to let them buy food or fuel ex¬ cept through an agent. We did manage to provision our boat for the next leg by buying little bits of inconspicu¬ ous food each day. We were told that anyone bringing boxes into the port area is stopped and charged duty on the contents. Part of our check-in procedure was to pay ,a fee to the doctor for practique and a fee to Customs. This appeared to be standard for all yachts. When Whitby Lass left, he told us that he’d had to pay the Port Captain $20. He was upset about it, especially since the Port Captain wouldn’t give him a receipt. When we got ready to leave, we asked an of¬ ficial at Immigration if it was necessary to pay a fee to the Port Captain. The official said that if there was a fee, it would be very small. After finally finding his office behind an unmarked door, the Port Captain indeed demanded $20. Jim told them that he had * only $8 with him and that he’d heard there was no fee. When Jim began to ask the Port Captain for his name, rank and serial number and told him he was going to write the Office of Tourism, things got sticky. The Port Captain did accept the lesser amount, but he refused to give a receipt and ripped up the paper on which Jim had made all his pertinent notes. Later in Port Suez we learn¬ ed that no there is not supposed to be a clearance fee in Hurghada. We used the radio to warn the boats behind us.

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‘Nalu IV’ at the Suez Canal Authority Building, with ferry and tug boat traffic.

I I aving arrived at Hurghada saltcovered and filthy from five days of sailing to weather, we were once again rescued by fel¬ low Americans. Unlike the previous two en¬ counters where the government was our host, this time it was Zapata Marine, a Louisiana-based company that operates a fleet of boats serving oil rigs in the Gulf of Suez. Two of the Gulf Fleet boats, #39 and #52, took us in and gave us showers and let us use their washing machines. They were delighted when we reciprocated by inviting them aboard Nalu for gin-fizzes. The Gulf Fleet crews, which make regular runs to Hurghada for supplies for the rigs, say they keep an eye out for American yachts because they know the situation in Egypt is so difficult. Many times they have provided fuel and water to boats in need. They then invited us to anchor near their rig as our first stop in the Gulf of Suez, and they were indeed a welcome sight when we reached Ashrafti Reef just inside the Gulf. Anticipating that the last 200 miles to the Med would be really tough, we planned on doing only 40 or 50 miles a day and anchor¬ ing at night. After stopping at Ashrafti Reef the first night, however, it turned flat calm and we were able to motor the last 140 miles to Port Said. Because we’d radioed ahead, an agent for

transiting the Suez Canal, who goes by the name of “The Prince of the Red Sea”, was waiting for us decked out in the unlikely combination of a blue blazer and a flowing robe. After coming aboard to greet us and pick up all the necessary papers, he headed off to clear us into port. He returned with boxes of cookies and pastries, and was later to provide us with all types of assistance ranging from where to get fuel to where to how to set up a tour of Cairo. And when it came time to transit the canal, he arranged for the paperwork and contracted the pilots. During the transit of the 81-mile canal, which we did in two days, we had a pilot aboard and behind the wheel of Nalu. Al¬ though the pilot’s fee was part of our canal transit payment, we were hit up for “presents”. This surprised us. We got angry when a pilot told us the $5 present we gave him was well short of the $20 he normally got. We got even more angry the next day when a pilot took the $5 with no comment. This pilot turned us over to the third one who nearly ran us aground going into the Port Said anchorage. When he asked for a tip, Jim told him a San Francisco Bay pilot would be thrown overboard for making such a request.

1 he passage through the Suez Canal was boring at best, in that the weather was overcast and the passage was like motoring in a giant irrigation canal. About the only ex¬ citement was seeing the variety of ships and flags when a southbound convoy passed. But they were mostly a fast blur in the haze. We were certainly reminded that Egypt had been in a war however. All along the edges of the canal were twisted wreckage and rolls of wire. Actually, the military presence throughout Egypt remains ominous as the country is still basically under the martial law that was declared when Sadat was assassinated. In summary, the feared Red Sea provided none of the drama or trauma we had ex¬ pected. We didn’t encounter pirates or any¬ one who could be mistaken for real ‘bad guys’. The horrendous sailing conditions we’d heard about never materialized. Deal¬ ing with the different cultures was a strain at the time but now makes fodder for great after-the-fact stories. We chose to transit the Red Sea rather than the Cape of Good Hope because we thought it represented the lesser of two evils. As often happens with cruising, things weren’t as they were advertised. They were better. — diana green jessie page 144

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aul Simon — the singer, not the politician — had a catchy hit single a number of years ago called “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover”. You remember the song: “Just hop on a bus, Gus . . . drop off the key, Lee”, and so on. It occurred to us that there must be just about fifty ways to lose your mast, too — especially during this inor¬ dinately windy summer on the Bay. Hmmm, “just stuff the pole, Noel . . . lose your backstay, Ray . . .” Quite happy with our clever analogy, and humming our new theme song all the while, we set about counting the ways. Well, first there’s the story of Leading Lady leaving Anderson’s Boatyard- in

Sausalito on a trailer bound for the SORC in the early 80’s. They hadn’t gone two blocks when, attempting to negiotiate the corner at the Big G Supermarket, they managed to hit ^ a telephone pole or something with the mast, wrecking it. Then there was the Georgia-based Cooter, which was being trucked home from Chicago after winning the 1987 One Ton NA’s when their trailer separated from the truck. The trailer veered off the road and ran into a wall, with the overhanging mast absorbing most of the impact. Another write-off.

And who can forget the J/24 mast that was inadvertently squashed by a certain boatyard’s travel-lift? (“clobber it with the truck, Chuck . . .”) Or when a Merit 25 was blown over in the parking lot — trailer and all — in a big storm, crunching the rig as well as the hull? Tiring of “dirt dismastings”, we began recalling confrontations with immovable ob¬ jects out on the water, such as the Tartan 34 Dismasting of the Year: ‘Flyer’ turns her mast into an aluminum pretzel in the recent Ultimate Yacht Race.

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that recently motored into a dock, breaking its headstay and bringing the mast down. Everyone knows at least one story about some bonehead who misjudged the height of a bridge, with the inevitable result. Pick up a copy of William Buckley's novel Airborne if you want to refresh your memory on this one. (“whack the bridge span, Stan . . .”). Other immovable objects just waiting to fold, bend or otherwise mutilate your precious rig include the bottom, which has claimed many a dinghy mast (“just stick it in the mud, Judd . . .”), and the hoist. The

Moore 24 next to us in the dry storage pen recently did a major number on their mast when lifting the boat onto the trailer in high winds, (“bash it with the crane, Wayne . . Sensing we’d come up with fifty ways to break a mast before the sails were even un¬ furled, we decided to stop humming our little ditty, roll up our sleeves and really try to figure out why and how boats dismast. Intending to write the definitive piece on the subject — one that would stand the test of time along with such maritime masterpieces as the Bounty trilogy, Chapman’s Piloting tome, and Brad Lewis’ Confessions of a Grinder — we sent three research assistants and two summer interns into the library wing of the spacious Latitude office looking for books and articles to read as background information. “Sorry, Chief,” the word came back. “There’s next to nothing written on the sub¬ ject. Just some lame passages in various manuals about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure, and the random cou¬ ple of drawings of jury rigs. Looks like you’ll have to write this one from scratch.” Uhhh ohhh, we thought, as we reached for the phone.

When the mast comes tumbling down . . . save the pieces if you can.

or starters, we decided to ask a few of our local keelboat experts about their ex¬ periences with losing sticks. Maybe they could shed some light on the subject and, if nothing else, we’d learn more about the fifty ways .... Tom Blackaller’s most memorable dis¬ masting was also his most embarrassing: it was at the start of a 6-Meter exhibition race in front of the St. Francis YC back in 1976. The race was on a howling Wednesday night during the Big Boat Series, and there were thousands of people lined up in the club

line at the gun, Blackaller, returning on port, was rammed at the chain plates by another 6-Meter on starboard. His rig never had a chance. “It was a full-on T-bone — neither of us saw the other one,” remembers Tom. “I ■couldn’t believe it — dismasted 50 feet in front of the Men’s Grill! Worse than that, Warren Miller was filming the whole inci¬ dent, and immortalized it in a movie called Sailing Bloopers.” Colliding with another boat, as Blackaller will testify, is one of the more dangerous and least recommended ways to lose your rig (“hit ’em with a 6-Meter, Peter . . .”). Blackaller’s no stranger to dismastings,

watching and cheering. It was blowing a solid 30 against the ebb that evening as the four 6-Meters jockeyed for the start. Blackaller, intent on pounding rival Hank Easom, lost track of the other two boats. Seconds after forcing Easom over early on the inside of the

especially in the Star class — he broke 19 of them (a record?) during his Star career. “That was back when they were made of wood. If you sailed hard, you just expected them to break. We’d always carry a couple to the regattas.” The largest boat Blackaller’s

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DISCOURSE ON dismasted was the 12-Meter Defender in 1982 during a practice race off Newport, Rhode Island. “A spreader failed and the top half of the rig tumbled. It was really noisy!” He’s also been on a few near misses, such as on High Noon in practice bfefore the 1980

tired ball joint fitting failed and the rig went over the side, dashing the O’Harian’s hopes of overall victory. “Sometimes you don’t *\

SORC, when a lower spreader ruptured the wall of the mast, ripping it open as if it were a beer can. They got the sails down before the rig let go. Another near miss was on Bullfrog in the ’82 Hate-the-State Race, when the stiffeners in the bottom of the mast — an early 7000 aluminum series (one of the first exotic ones) — came off as the rivets fell out. “It would pop a whole foot-and-a-half out of column to weather!” says Blackaller, with what approached admiration. They held it up with a series of juryrigged chicken stays (legal only in emergencies), and it “wobbled” its way around the state. “Why either of those masts didn’t fall down is still a mystery to me.”

\ lameda yacht broker Chris Corlett has probably lived through more big boat dismastings than anyone else in the Bay Area. He mentioned about ten, the most recent one being on the Express 34 Expedi¬ tious last summer. On a spinnaker run in 30 knots, the helmsman lost his balance and fell as the boat rolled (“Just lose your grip, Skip . . .”). The boat rounded down, pushing the spinnaker pole into the mast hard enough to bring it down — a textbook way to shed a mast. Chris had two thoughts on that ex¬ perience, “A carbon fiber pole, or a light spinnaker pole, would have blown away, leaving you with a broken pole instead of a broken rig. Also, foot straps — like you’d find on a windsurfer —- are perfect for help¬ ing the helmsman stay put in heavy going. They worked great on Wall Street Duck." Unlike Blackaller, Corlett doesn’t recall any particularly noisy dismastings. “They’re never very spectacular; they just seem to float down. But each one has been a real disappointment.” The most distressing one for Chris, who gets choked up about it even to this day, was on the legendary Scarlett O’Hara in the ’82 Clipper Cup. They were beating at night during the windiest Molokai Race to date (the Demolition Derby), when a

know an otherwise shiny-looking rig is fatigued until it goes,” figured Corlett. Corlett also mentioned his two TransPac dismastings. The first one was oIncredible in the windy '77 crossing, the one \where Merlin set the record and an unprecendented five masts were deepsixed. In heavy running conditions, Dave Hulse handed off the helm to Steve “Boogie” Fletcher, who must not have been quite awake or dialed in yet. Boogie — like Hulse, a great downwind driver — immediately stuffed the pole and broke the mast. “Don’t make the transition between drivers too quickly when it’s hairy. Wait for the new helmsman to feel comfor¬ table, and then continue to sit with him,”

advises Chris. The other dismasting, one he’d just as soon forget, was at the start of the ’81 TransPac. Steering the J/36 Gryphon on port, Corlett tried to duck the starboard tack Natoma but cut it a little too close. The relatively tiny Gryphon stood upright as the 58-footer’s windshadow hit them; they tangled rigs, and Corlett’s boat lost. Designer Carl Schumacher, who claims to have broken more rudders than masts, reminded us about the 78-foot Canadian ketch Mir, now owned by John Scripps of San Diego and called Miramar, finishing the 1969 TransPac. They broached and broke their main mast a few hundred yards from the Diamond Head buoy, and eventually sailed backwards through the finish line under mizzen alone. “That was probably the single most famous dismasting of all time,” said Carl. He also reminded us of a more recent dismasting that attracted an inordinate amount of media attention: a few years ago, teen idol Simon Le Bon’s Whitbread boat Drum lost her keel and flipped, blowing her Going once, going twice . . . (“Just put it on its side, Clyde . . .”)

DISMASTING

rig out and trapping half a dozen men down below, (“just lose your keel, Neil . . .”) Then there was the C&C 61 Sorcery who lost her rig on a delivery home a number of years ago when she did a 360 degree pitchpole: rigs seldom survive that kind of pressure. Schumacher’s most memorable dismasting was on a hot Rhodes 33 called Mistress, back in Newport Harbor when he was a teenager. “It was so windy that the race had been called. That never stopped the owner of this boat from going out and bombing around the harbor, so he loaded up a bunch more crew and out we went. After awhile, the wooden mast just exploded. The bottom third was still in the boat; the top third was still attached to the sail; there were splinters everywhere . . . and the middle part of the mast was simply gone!”

ailmaker Steve Taft recalled the time Dee Smith caught the leeward runner of the Wylie 34 Leading Edge on the upwind mark, a daymarker, and ripped the rig out as he sailed away. Then there was the time his friend Don Jesberg was in a TransPac on a Cal 33 that dismasted almost precisely half

way to Hawaii (“We’d circled the spot on the chart ahead of time, telling him that right there was absolutely the worst place to dismast. Naturally, that’s where they did it,” laughed Steve). Or the time back in 1979 when he was on Imp, racing against Lois Lane in a YRA race. “Lois’ rig was incredibly bent up, and everyone on our boat started predicting it would fall as they bashed through the Pt. Blunt washing machine. We actually counted it down: 5,4,3,2,1 . . . and bam! right then, their rig went!” (“Put on too much rake, Jake . . .”) Lois, according to Bill Erkelens, Jr., has gone through “between four and six masts, depending on how you measure them”, which must be another record. Certainly, it’s endeared her to a few sparmakers along the way. (In the produc¬ tion boat division of the mastbreaking sweepstakes, the Express 27 class is winning — one boat, UXB, is currently on its fifth rig). Taft remembers two incidents from the

1984 Clipper Cup vividly. “We watched this guy tune the rig on Spinner, a Swan 441 from New Zealand, at the dock before the first race. He thought he was an expert but he obviously didn’t have a clue — he was literally using a tuning fork to tune the rig, with no regard to how straight the mast was! We’d never seen that before, and all got a big laugh out of it. Their mast broke before they

The long tow back in . . . was it operator failure or gear failure?

even crossed the starting line . . . .” But by far the most awesome dismasting Taft has seen occurred at South Point, on the Big Island, in the ’84 Around the State enduro. From a ringside seat a few hundred yards back on Sidewinder, Taft watched spellbound as the Farr 40 Exador was creamed by a rogue wave. “It broke over the boat, hitting at the second spreaders. It was like a Mike Tyson punch; no rig could have survived it. It was just unlucky timing on their part — they should have won overall.” The more we asked around, the more stories we heard; five boats retired with various rig failures from the Catalina Race, 'the trimaran Sundowner lost her mast in the near-windless Silver Eagle, Summertime Dream got it in a windy Bay race last month (the crew apparently didn’t get the runners on soon enough); some one tonners wrecked $20,000 masts in the Stone Cup

(jibing with too much “tipstay”, or perma¬ nent backstay, on), and so on. Without real¬ ly trying, we counted over 30 dismastings this summer alone.

I I aving heard more than enough war stories, we decided to call some local riggers next. Maybe they could help us make some

DISCOURSE ON DISMASTING sense of the subject. According to the riggers we interrogated, the following is a pretty safe generalization: most upwind dismastings occur due to gear failure — a fatigued fitting, such as a cracked swage fitting or a rusty old turjibuckle; a 50 cent pin falling out; an incorrect installation; or any of a myriad of little pieces in the rig¬ ging puzzle that can go wrong. Most down¬ wind dismastings occur because of driver or crew screw-ups — leeward round downs and flubbing the runners during the jibe being the two leading culprits. Patrick Adams of Sausalito’s Bay Riggers broke it down even farther: “Because they’re older and not pushed as hard, cruising boats tend to dismast because of gear failure. Racing boats generally dismast because of operator failure.” Gear failure can be prevented by con¬ stantly checking for the first signs of fatigue — a hairline crack, a strand of broken wire, score marks or abnormal bends, especially around spreader tips, in rod rigging, etc. — and by replacing,old stays and fittings before the rig actually falls down. Remember, it’s almost always the rigging, not the spar, that breaks. The rule of thumb here seems to be to replace all standing rigging every seven years. “You can go longer — it depends how hard you use your boat — but that’s asking for it,” said Adams. Operator failure is harder to prevent, especially on today’s all-out grand prix boats. “People just aren’t sailing very conserva¬ tively,” said Joe Hulse, owner of an Alameda-based rigging shop. “Learning to stay out of trouble (tiller towards trouble!), when to reef, when not to set a chute, when to chicken jibe, and so on would prevent a lot of dismastings.” Hulse figures it’s a good idea to pull your rig every few years and check it thoroughly. Also, it’s smart to have a professional rigger tune your rig once a year. It’ll cost about $50 for an hour of work out on the water — and the professional won’t be carrying a tuning fork. The rigger should also go aloft in a bosun’s chair (which he’ll need to do anyway if the rig is discontinous) to check everything. Be careful not to overtighten the rig — Hulse is currently building a Santana 35 mast for a client whose rig was wound up so tight that it compressed the extrusion — yet another of the fifty ways. And above all, says Hulse, make sure the crew knows how to use the rig. Some boats, one tonners especially, are putting on too much runner and pulling out forestays. Others, most often masthead rigs, invert their rigs by letting off the backstay or babystay too fast. “These thin-walled racing sections can only take

waiting to happen.” Telltale signs, says Schwab, include droopy spreaders, loose shrouds, weird toggle extensions, and decrepit turnbuckles. At any given time, Svendsen’s has 20 or more masts in their yard for preventative maintenance, a prac¬ tice Schwab thinks more people ought to get in the habit of.

Get to know your local rigger before he gets to know you.

about three inversions history,” he says.

before

they’re

I f you do break your rig, all the riggers agree that, when possible, you should bring in all the pieces — not because the rigger will re-use the parts (he generally can’t knd won’t, except for maybe a few halyards), but because it’ll save time in replacing the spar, especially if it’s a custom affair. It’ll also reveal to the rigger what went wrong. According to Buzz Balienger, whose Santa Cruz sparbuilding concern is the largest in Northern California, “a good rigger can tell right away why the mast failed. It’s invariably due to loading it the wrong way — this has been the summer of round-downs! — or to rigging failure or just plain fatigue.” Balienger, who builds production spars for the Santa Cruz ULDB crowd, noted that sleds seldom lose their masts: they’re more controllable and the loads aren’t as high as on IOR boats because they’re not stable enough to carry, or need, a lot of sail area. No sleds have dismasted yet, and only one SC 50 (Octauia) and only one Express 37 (Flamingo) have lost a stick, both in what he describes as “12-knot power round-downs”. But, maintains Bruce Schwab, who runs the rigging department at Svendsen’s in Alameda, “There’s no good reason to lose a rig ever. Maybe it’s excusable on a one tonner, but the average racer/cruiser has a lot of leeway built into the rig. It’s just that people don’t tune their rigs right or take care of them — I can walk down any dock in the Bay Area and tell you which boats are accidents

hat to do if you do lose your mast? After the initial confusion and running around is over, relax. Get a beer and calm down: often on a boat, one accident leads to another. Assess the situation: set priorities and then go about clearing up the mess. You may have to jettison the rig immediately if it’s pounding on the hull, so be sure to know where the bolt cutters and/or hacksaw are (also, be sure your cotter pins are quickly removable in an emergency). Again, save the sails and rig if possible — in the ’81/82 Whitbread Race, when it was too rough to get their broken rig aboard, the crew of Roily go, a Frers 51, simply lowered the mess 30 feet beneath their hull and waited for daybreak. When things were calm enough, they hauled it up and set about creating a jury rig. Each dismasting is a little different — if there’s fifty ways to lose your rig, there must be hundreds of ways to improvise a repair. Worthwhile advice on how to handle these emergencies and set up jury rigs is really hard to come by — unfortunately, there’s just no substitute for experience. Cornelis van Rietchoten, in his book Blue Water Rac¬ ing, summed up this paradox thusly: “Solu¬ tions can be bought ten-a-penny from arm¬ chair theorists but sadly the few with real practical experience rarely seem to set their stories down on paper — possibly because the cold facts rarely reflect the high degree of leadership, ingenuity and teamwork required to overcome what are, in extreme cases, life and death situations.” On that note — realizing that we were armchair theorists at best, not even remotely possessing any real experience with dismast¬ ing — we decided to halt our investigation. i (“You can’t win ’em all, Paul . . .”) Maybe we didn’t exactly unearth every one of the fifty ways to lose a rig, but what the hell — it was a fun excuse to drag out some old file shots, retell some war stories and chat with a few of our friends in the rigging business. Anyway, we managed to get ourselves a deal on replacing those old shrouds .... — latitude — rkm page 150

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'SAGA'

e’s back! Arlo Nish, the globe trotting Alamedan, and his seafaring family

have returned from their second circum¬ navigation. On July 2nd, their bright, white

ties, back in January 1981. Three years

65-foot steel yawl Saga slid back under the

earlier he had completed his first circum¬

Golden Gate right at noon.valmost three

navigation aboard Sonic, a 60-foot Rhodes

years after heading west for a 27,000-mile

ketch also made of steel. Based on. that ex- N

adventure. Onboard were Arlo and his wife

perience, Arlo had drawn up some ideas for

Marge as well as their daughter Sandy and

another boat. Collaborating with naval archi¬

her husband Mike Gehb. A contingent of their friends gathered on

tect Tom Wylie, they produced Saga. The

the windy, foggy decks of the Golden Gate

the launching harness on

Bridge to herald their heroes home, and then drove over to Alameda for a dockside

1984. Oh, we forgot to mention: Arlo also built Saga with the help of a couple of other

reception. A large American flag fluttering

fellows, including Mike Gehb.

beamy (18 feet) centerboarder slipped out of September 5,

from her rigging, Saga played hostess to several dozen friends, family members and children for the remainder of the afternoon.

lthough Arlo says he and Marge got

Champagne and bean dip were the order of

tired of being at sea, he never seems to lack

the day. We originally featured Arlo, now in his fif¬

energy. During a conversation "With ‘hfm it’s hard not to get the impression that there’s

COMES HOME the trip. For Arlo, Bali with its friendly, polite inhabitants and non-western culture, stood out in particular. For Marge, it was the living something that he needs to go fix or build.

history lessons they encountered in the area

(“Excuse me for just a minute, would you?

of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands,

I’ve got to go dig the Panama Canal.”)

where relics of World War II could be seen

Marge, during a tour of the boat, confided that Arlo’s small onboard shop — a cub¬

everywhere. For Sandy and Mike, it was the diving, especially at Vanatua, where they

byhole tucked away between the galley and

went down to see the wreck of the President

the master stateroom — was his sanctuary.

Coolidge, a passenger liner converted to a

“Sometimes I think we break things just so

troop ship. Rather than do the tour package,

he can fix them,” she said with a laugh.

though, we wanted to concentrate on what

Although he’s done a great deal of work on

land

contractor,

builder

Arlo learned, and what did and didn’t work

and

from a family that has put in many miles at sea. Hence, a more utilitarian report.

engineer, his love for the sea has never sub¬ sided. At 12 he was building speedboats in Oakland. He also worked in Barney Nichols’

A1 rlo

boatyard and fished commercially with his

reports a couple of interesting

brothers. His blood pressure, you might say,

items in the health department. For one,

rises and falls with the tide.

even though he and his crew were always current on their shots, they were never once

While Marge shared a cup of coffee with some friends down below in the extremely

checked for their yellow certificate of vac¬

roomy main cabin, Arlo and I talked up in

cinations card. They got conflicting advice

the cockpit, which is protected by a solid

on how to deal with malaria, which was a

dodger. Not satisfied with the originaljook of

problem in the Solomon Islands in par¬

the dodger, Arlo rebuilt it in Australia. He skillsawed two-and-a-half inches off the top and raked the windows aft a bit more for a sleeker look.

The homecoming was a happy one for (I to r) Mike, Arlo, Sandy and Marge. Spread. ‘Saga’ passes under the Golden Gate.

“We just ran out of gas,” he says. “And we

ticular. Four people on another boat had to leave after coming down with the illness, even though they had been taking the proper pills.

Saga, he explained, had been scheduled

got tired of checking in with the bureaucrats

“We were told to use Maloprin when we

to spend another year-and-a-half at sea.

at the port captain’s office, immigrations and

got the symptoms,” says Arlo. “Then we

After touring the South Pacific, Australia and

customs.

South Africa, she was to have set sail for

were told to take it all the time. The only problem with that is, that you get immune to

Europe and

Department.” It would be fun to recount the highlights of

the Mediterranean.

Instead,

Arlo and company headed west and home.

In the

Indonesia, Navy

they

and

added two

the

Health

the

effects

of the

drug.

eventually

stopped taking it altogether and just figured

'SAGA' we’d dose up if we needed it.” They never did. They never had a prob¬ lem with hepatitis, either. Part of the credit goes

system,

their which

onboard was

water

collection

constantly

could pick the best prices when we did.”

being

Cost for a gallon of diesel averaged about

replenished by runoff from the deck. Arlo in¬

$1.40 worldwide. The best price he got was

stalled a two-way valve for the deck scup¬

$.74 in San Diego on the trip home.

pers. When it rains, he lets the downpour

Many sailors fear mixing electronics with a

clean the salt off, then routes the fresh water

salt water

to the 1,100 gallon holding tank. They never

reason. Arlo has never let the hazards of

carried more than 300 or 400 gallons at a

electrolysis stand in his way. You either go

time, but that was enough to avoid having to

spartan, he says, or you go all the way.

take on local water that may or may not have

Saga’s galley looks more like a modern

environment,

and

with

good

been potable. It also meant being able to take

home kitchen than anything yachtie, with

fresh water showers every day, and Marge

electric gimballed cooking pots, microwave,

says Arlo would take two or three on some

convection oven, blender, and & large fridge

of the really hot days.

and freezer. Other electronic gear abounds

Saga also has an 800 gallon fuel capacity.

as well, including navigation devices, televi¬

The large tanks were designed, in part, to be

sions, hi-fi’s, electric fans for the tropics and

part of a moveable ballast system, a favorite

even a small washer/dryer. Thte only^prob-

concept of Tom Wylie. By pumping water

lem he encountered (aside from switching

and/or fuel to the high side on long upwind

from nickel cadmium to lead acid batteries)

or close reaching sailing legs, you can keep

was leaking freon where the rubber hoses

the boat more upright and sail more effi¬

clamped onto the refrigeration compressor.

ciently. Conversely, when going downwind,

He recommends using solid mechanical flare fittings instead.

you can unload some of the excess.

Talking electrical systems with Arlo Nish is like chatting with Stradivarius about violins. rlo didn’t use the moveable ballast i

For

those

who

can’t

distinguish

between an ohm and an amp, it’s reassuring to know he exists. Saga’s system ran off the main engine, linked to the lOkw, llCKvolt generator by a Sundstrand variable displace¬ ment

hydraulic

pump.

“It’s

beautiful

system,” says Arlo, referring to the pump’s ability to translate the engine’s variable rpm’s into a constant 60 cycles a second needed by the generator. He got all the juice he needed by running the engine about two hours a day.

The

crew

appreciates

the

conve¬

niences, too, including a plentiful supply of fresh-frozen meat, fish, vegetables and cold drinks.

big and hard to handle. The mizzen was

“It’s never too rough,” Arlo notes, “to

beforehand, for sailing. If it were bigger, Arlo

have ice in your martinis!”

useless,

and

Wylie

knew

theorizes, he could lower the main in winds

The one kitchen appliance Saga lacked

over 22 knots and sail with just the jib and.

was a dishwasher. Alas, Marge says Arlo

mizzen. He also doesn’t recommend roller furling for the main just because a boat’s over

knows he’s got two in herself and Sandy. She was extremely pleased, nevertheless,

50 feet. He and Mike were always able to

with the white plastic countertops made of

jiffy reef in about two minutes.

DuPont’s Corian. They had stainless sur-'

Saga sailed under spinnaker a great deal

faces onboard Sonic, which made the galley

of the time. Arlo had rigged a double pole

feel too institutional. The soft white plastic,

system which didn’t quite work out. He had

which comes in thicknesses up to 3/4 inch,

hoped to eliminate the need to jibe by

is heavy but very durable. Scratches and

attaching a pole to each clew. Doing so

gouges are easily sanded out.

stretched

the

sail’s

foot

too

much

and

pinched the shoulders, making the sail look

Arlo surveys one of two winches ripped off the deck by flailing jib sheets.

pretty

awful. bove decks, Arlo had mixed suc¬

system much, but he did take advantage of

cesses. The jib roller furling system worked

the large fuel carrying capability. “We didn’t

fine off the wind, but not so well uphill. “You

have to fill up that often,” he says, “and

should really change sails,” he says. On a

The

winged-out

140%

jib

was

another good dQwnwind sail, especially on the trip from Australia to Africa. They also tried a multi-purpose spinnaker, or MPS, which Arlo now describes as “the page I 54

COMES HOME coast. Beating north with a storm jib, Arlo and Mike had moved the jib leads farther aft than normal. During a tack, the flapping sheets hooked themselves under the self¬ tailing lip of the afterguy winch and ripped it right off the deck. The same thing happened on the other side, too. The moral of the story: make sure your self-tailing winches are lined up so they don’t snag, even after three years of trouble-free sailing. is Another advantage of the hard dodger is that it gives you a place to take off your foul weather gear before going below. “Salt will accumulate over time if you keep bring¬ ing it below decks with you,” says Arlo.

couple of months ago, Arlo chatted with Wylie about doing an 80 footer. Those notions have taken a back seat to getting his land legs back, moving ashore with Marge and fixing up a new home and selling Saga. He’s sorry he didn’t make it to Alaska, but after 17 years of seafaring and building boats he’s ready for a change of pace. Marge feels the same way, although she’ll never give up traveling. Many of the friends they made on this

trip

will

coming

visit

soon

themselves, so they’ll be ready to return the hospitality. Of course, Arlo did plan on having a

buying one ready-made. Not too many are

Marge in ‘Saga's spacious galley.

biggest joke around.” Designed to be tacked

attempted to fabricate one. Saga s 6’6” keel allowed them to get in¬

to the bow, the MPS proved to be effective

to shallower spots than a full keeled vessel

only in a narrow apparent wind angle. The

could go, but it necessitated making the rud¬

rest of the time it was more frustrating than

der a bit short. The centerboard increased

helpful. “Better to tack it to the pole and

total draft to 14’9” for windward work. Arlo

forget about it,” says Arlo. Some other notes from the Saga log:

designed it to articulate, or shift from side to

ARLO NISH

big enough for a 65-footer, which is why he

side to provide extra lift, another plan that

s If he were to go long distance cruising

never quite matured. Perhaps the center¬

again, Arlo would leave his hard dinghy

board’s most valuable contribution was as a

behind and just take a couple of inflatables.

flopper stopper in anchorages with a lot of

The former takes up too much space and is

roll. “We’d just crank it down and cut the

hard to get in and out of. Also, make sure

'Saga under sail near Hamilton Island. Australia.

you lock your dinghy all the time. Saga lost

rocking motion in half,” says Arlo. ^ The butane barbecue on the afterdeck

hers in Darwin, Australia. Use a cable and a

worked well in quiet areas, but in winds over

stand-up engine room on the 80-footer. And

lock. Neither have to be atom bomb proof,

10 knots, all the heat blew away. Arlo built

maybe he could build himself a little bigger

an outer shield, which increased the unit’s

shop .... (“Excuse me for a minute, will you? I’ve

just hefty enough to deter sticky fingers. miles trying to work the bugs out of his

efficiency to about 15 knots. s The only serious gear

homemade

occurred on the final leg up the California

v* After spending most of the 27,000

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windvane,

Arlo

recommends

damage

got to go build a boat. I’ll be right back. ")

— shimon van collie

MAX EBB

would probably forget that my boat is a “cruiser/racer” if 1 didn’t make a point

of taking at least one cruise every summer, right in the middle of the racing season. First

because of its perceived superiority offshore

1 find a weekend with no racing scheduled,

then fill up the water tank, stock up on my

knowledge the present owner had never

favorite brand of canned beef stew (which is

taken it more than a mile out the Gate.

gale

conditions,

although

. Meanwhile, on my starboard side, there

only edible on a boat, for some reason), pick out some books, and I’m off to my secret anchorage. Only problem is, this “secret” anchorage isn’t so secret. In fact, just about everyone 1 know goes to exactly the same place when they want to spend a night or two at anchor in a nearby cove. So I wasn’t really too sur¬ prised when, having just thoroughly enjoyed a meal that would be totally unpalatable on land, put on a good tape, and opened an absorbing book, I was practically knocked off the settee by another boat coming alongside my port side at what felt like about nine knots. There was no crash, fortunately. Their big fenders took the initial impact, while the spring line they managed to snag around one of my primary winches took care of any relative velocity between the two boats. “Ahoy, Max,” shouted an older woman’s voice, one I thought I recognized as belong¬ ing to a cruising acquaintance from the yacht club. I looked up through my cabin window to see a big bronze turnbuckle and some hand-worked

baggywrinkle

moving back¬

wards as the spring line returned to its original length. “Ahoy,

Max!” repeated the voice, this

time accompanied by her husband’s. “Okay

For a foil operating below the surface, the optimal

if we raft up with you?”

shape is a full ellipse.

“Sure, why not,” I said as 1 climbed up two steps of the companionway ladder and

cocktail party, and on my boat, no less.

leaned against the edge of the hatch. “Come

“Well, that’s what I get for trying to hide out

aboard for a drink as soon as you’re put

in the same old cove once again,” I thought

away.”

to myself.

With one tip at the surface, or beneath a very nar¬ row hull, the optimal shape is still close to a full

“Thanks, we’ll be over in a few minutes,”

Just about the only thing the two boats

they answered. They also informed me that

tied up to me had in common was that they

ellipse.

was a very new, moderately light hull with a wing keel, everything,

On my port side was a fiberglass double-ender built in the mid-70's: heavy, full keel, doubleheaded rig, lots of traditional-looking bronze and teak ... were both considered to be superb cruising

they would naturally be interested in tying up

boats by their owners. On my port side was a

on my other side in order to keep the raft

fiberglass double ender built in the mid-70’s:

balanced on the single anchor. Within a half-hour, my quiet weekend at anchor was transformed into a stand-up

and

cosmetically

very

perfect

finely

detailed,

interior

that

remembered from the last boat show. A boat sold

its

high-performance

and

“well

thought-out interior”, no doubt, but this one seemed to me to be permanently crippled by its lack of spinnaker gear or light-air sails. “No

place

store

all

those

sailbags

anyway,” I thought, what with that clever aft cabin

another boat was due any minute, and that

elliptical rudder, roller furling

that takes

most of the

space

normally used by cockpit lockers.

heavy, full keel, doubleheaded rig, lots of

o sooner had I put the first round of

traditional-looking bronze and teak. “A crab

drinks out on the folding cockpit table (which

crusher,”

I always carry for just such emergencies),

thought,

probably

selected

page I 56

FOILED AGAIN starts to turn. But if I lock the helm, then the boat runs like it’s on rails. You see, the keel on your boat is so big and long, with so when the inevitable verbal brawl between the two owners began. “I’ll bet that winged keel tracks even worse than a normal fin keel,” asserted the double-

nice,

much extra surface, that even without the

“But a full-length keel gets just as much ballast,

if not more,

down just as low,”

added her husband. “And you get the track¬

rudder in the system the boat is directionally stable.” “So you have to lock the helm whenever

ender. “You know, with my full keel under¬ body, I can just let go of the helm, walk around the boat, and I’ll still be on course when I get back to the cockpit.” “Well, 1 can’t exactly do that,” confessed

. , . Meanwhile, on my starboard side, there e ■ 7 r . v,

the owner of the wing keel, “but getting all that ballast down in the wings makes this

cosmetically perfect interior. ing ability, too.” “But it’s not really a valid test if you just let go the helm,” responded the wing-keeler. “If

you let it go.” “Definitely. But like I said, with the helm locked, it’s incredibly stable, as are almost all fin keel boats. I think that’s a very small price to pay for the performance of a technologi¬ cally advanced keel design.” “What about kelp?” I asked cautiously between sips of my drink, because 1 ex¬ pected this to be something of a sore spot. “Doesn’t it get hopelessly tangled around those wings?” “Must be a terrible kelp-catcher,” noted the two owners of the double-ender, nod¬ ding their heads in agreement. “Hasn’t happened yet,” was the response. “You know, even a conventional bulb keel, even one with a lot of rake in it, like a Cal 20, for example,' can be a kelp-catcher. The string of kelp wraps around the thin part of the keel just below the hull, then slides down the leading edge, until it gets caught where the keel widens into the bulb. The same thing can happen on my keel, of course, but it’s not a very frequent occurrence.” I was able to restrain myself from asking if he had sailed to Santa Cruz.

e argued for a while about full bat¬

tens versus roller furling, at which point I Beneath a very wide hull, the optimal shape becomes

ducked below to assemble a plate of cheese

a half ellipse, and the effective aspect ratio is

and crackers for my guests. But when I

doubled.

returned on deck, the conversation was back

to keels and hydrodynamics.

boat real stiff, considering the shallow draft. Why, with a regular fin keel, this boat would

“Maybe you can explain all this ‘elliptic

draw almost two feet more water, ,and 1

keel’ stuff to us,” asked the double-enders.

wouldn’t even be able to anchor in here

Beneath most real hull forms, the optimal shape falls

“Seems like every new boat ad brags about

safely — certainly not this close to the beach,

somewhere in between the half and full ellipse.

it, but my guess is that shaving away more keel area only makes the boat handle even

out of the wind and current.” 1 reminded him that he hadn’t actually

I just let go of my wheel, the rudder is free to

worse. And cutting away the top of the keel,

anchored anywhere at all.

rotate with the flow,

it doesn’t do

where it joins the hull, looks to me like

“That’s a good point,” said the woman

anything to the water. It’s as if it wasn’t there

insanity. That should be the place where you

from the double-ender. “Shallow draft is

at all. So of course the boat is unstable, and

want maximum strength!”

page I 57

and

MAX EBB “I understand the advantages of elliptical keels and keeler.

rudders,”

“Something

answered about

the wing

minimizing

induced drag caused by the vorticity spilling

by the mast. After some maneuvering, we

said purposefully, pointing to the owner of

off the top of the keel, or something. But I

found space for the rig across the cabin top,

the wing keel yacht, and then to her skeg.

have to admit, the cut-away root sections

with the board upside-down projecting out

“Yes,” he said, “we think we understand

over the lifelines and almost into the cockpit

why elliptical keels and rudders are being

have me baffled. The hull should be acting

Used on sailboats. But take your skeg, for example. With the bottom of the board act¬

Don a edge, a vortex forms, which creates the other end of the foil. The water surface is not an endplate! . . .

ing as such a good end-plate, why do they cut back so severely on the section right at the root? If they’re just trying to get rid of root turbulence,

wouldn’t it be better to use

appropriate root fillets and carry the max¬ imum chord length and thickness right up to the hull?” “That’s

good

question,”

she

said

through a mouthful of cheese and crackers, “but there’s an easy answer — the free sur¬ face may have constant pressure, but not

like an end plate, blocking all the water from

of my boat. During this time I introduced her

spilling over to the other side and causing a

as a graduate student from the University

constant potential, so the hull is only a partial

vortex. Why any designer would want to

Naval Architecture Department. When we

Optimal sailboard skeg shapes. "E" represents the

reduce the thickness and length of the keel

returned to our seats in my cockpit, the tail of her board, which sported an elliptical skeg

effectiveness of the board as an endplate.

right at the hull where it should be the most effective, and also where it has to carry the heaviest structural load, is beyond me.” “Just another fad,” remarked the more traditional cruiser. “Where is Lee Helm when we need her,” I thought, idly watching some windsurfers sail¬ ing in the outer portion of the cove, on the other side of the wind line. But then I noticed one of the boards had sailed into the an¬ chorage area, and was headed straight for our raft. And when the board got closer 1 began to recognize the sailor as — yes, right on cue — Lee Helm. “Yo! Lee!” I hailed as she sailed past. She carved up into the wind, tacked once, and came much closer across our sterns on the next pass. “Your friend certainly does fill up a wetsuit nicely,” remarked one of the owners of the double-ender,

response to which the

other owner of the double-ender dispensed a sharp elbow-jab to the ribs. “Lee, what are you doing on this side of the Bay?” I asked when she came within range. “Just

out

cruising

with

some friends,

Max,” she said as she let her sail luff, clew dragging in the water slightly. “We’re on the big ultra-light anchored over in the next har¬ bor. I mean, like, they never cruise without a good supply of sailboards in the forepeak!” “Come aboard for a visit,” I said, and after one more tack she was alongside the double-

complete with cutaway root section, was

ender.

prominently displayed in front of us. “My friend has a question for you, Lee,” I

end-plate.” “What?” I ran below to the chart table, and brought back a pencil and an old sheet of race

S he climbed aboard, and then pulled the entire rig up after her, lifting the board up

instructions to use as scrap paper. “If you have a fully submerged foil of a page 158

FOILED AGAIN

his brought the conversation back to

deep vs. shallow keels, and the wing keel given aspect ratio,” she explained as she

wide hull will be closer to a half ellipse. I

owner repeated his boast about his shallow

drew the first sketch, “the ideal planform is a

mean, like, windsurfers have known this for

keel performing as though it was much

full ellipse, as you already know. I think you

years. Boards with very wide tails use skegs

also already know that if you have one end

with very little or no root cut-out, while

deeper. “But what

of the foil against a large, flat plate, then the

boards with narrow tails do best with fairly

aground?”

ideal shape is a half ellipse, because the flow

extreme cut-out at the root.”

double-ender. “We love to run aground —

over the full ellipse is symmetrical, and the

“That’s believable,” I allowed, beginning to grasp intuitively what was going on.

that is, we love to sneak into places where

plate duplicates the axis of symmetry.”

happens

asked

the

you

woman

run

from

the

we really don’t fit, and as long as'it’s mud or sand, we really can’t do any damage.” “Yes,

that’s a good

point,”

added,

reaching for my tide book at the same time. “When we hit bottom, we can get off by heeling over. But a wing keel draws more water when the boat heels, not less. Isn’t that one of the reasons they work so well?” From the expression on the wing keel owner’s face, it didn’t look like he had really thought this one through. “And then when you dry out at low tide,” continued the double-ender owner, “do you balance upright on the wings, or lay over on one side?” “Imagine what would happen if you were balanced upright, and then fell over!” 1 flipped the tide book to the current page, and scanned down for the day’s predictions: “Minus 1.6!,” I announced. The owner of the wing keel yacht looked distinctly worried. “Well, I think I’ll just swing on my own hook tonight,” he said. “We should do the same, if the tide’s go¬ Comparison of straight-tapered airfoils with elliptical

“Anyway,” she said as she ate the last

ing down that low,” remarked the double-

airfoils. "U” is a factor used to compute induced

cracker on the table, “time for me to head

enders. “When the tide changes, we’ll swing

drag._

back to my boat, before the wind dies —

in much closer to the beach.” In another half-hour, I was alone with my

She paused for a second to let this sink in, while she spread some more cheese on another cracker. “But what happens if we move the foil up

unless you have some more food here!” “Want to split a can of beef stew?” I

stack of books once again.

offered.

so that one end is right at the surface?” No one ventured an answer. “If the foil is generating lift,” she con¬ tinued, “the pressure on one side will be dif¬ ferent from the pressure on the other side, so the water elevations will change. And as soon as the water reaches the trailing edge, a vortex forms, which creates induced drag just like the tip vortex at the other end of the foil. The water surface is not an end-plate!” I was still having a little bit of difficulty grasping the significance of this concept, and

“Eeewww! Gag me with a winch handle! ”

I looked over at my friends to see if they

she said, and began to re-launch her board.

hat the cruisers didn’t know was that

it’s too bad we draw so much

the tide was only going down to minus point

“So the ideal shape for a foil with one end

water,” she said as she started to sail away.

eight that night, and that there would be at

at the surface is still a full ellipse,” suggested

“Otherwise, we’d come in and join your raft.

least ten feet of water anywhere we could

one of the cruisers. “Close to it,” confirmed Lee, “especially

See you out there!”

swing.

were doing any better.

“Like,

Fortunately, my secret anchorage still has some secrets.

under a very narrow hull. A wide hull does

— max ebb

act as an end-plate, so the ideal keel on a page I 59 /

THE RACING

In the old days, July used to be the midsummer break in the racing schedule, a chance to work on the lawn and get to know your wife and kids again. Not any more; last month we had distance races (Silver Eagle,

Boreas, Moonlight,), various nationals (Olson 25, Santana 22, Olson 30). some race weeks^ (Audi Sobstad, Tahoe), and a whole bunch of special events (PICYA Championships, the Am/Aus Regatta, the Marui/O’Neill Windsurfing Tour, the Adams Cup Semi-Finals, and more). Also in these pages, you’ll find some Halftime Scores, the Ken¬ wood Cup entry list, a Public Service Announcement, more news on Citius. the usual Race Notes, and one extremely weird photograph.

Olson 25 Nationals

The series, the fourth ever Olson 25 na¬

To no one’s, complete surprise, Bill Riley,

tionals, was actually closer than the results

the defending Olson 25 national champion,

indicate, and the winner wasn’t decided until

ended up winning his second nationals in a

the final race. Only Dog Lips from Golden,

row on July 8-10. Despite only winning-one

Colorado, managed to win two races, but it

race, Riley’s 4,2,1,4,3 record with Pearl was

wasn’t

good enough to put away Dick Duoos’

consistent finishes.

Valkyrie by four points. Last year, when the

1) Pearl, Bill Riley, Sausalito VC, 13.75 points; 2) Valkyrie, Dick Duoos, Santa Cruz YC, 17.75; 3) Witching Hour, Keith Moore, South Beach YC, 19; 4) Fast Freddie, Wyatt Mathews, Cal SC, 20.75; 5) Dog Lips, Bruce Bates, Coors YC, 21.5. (14 boats)

nationals were held on the Bay, the popular Sausalito sailor stomped on the fleet with four firsts and a-second. “It’s getting harder to win,” he grinned, “Either they’re getting

enough

keep

with

Riley’s

better, or we’re getting worse!” The “we” on the

Pearl

Adam,

were

Jack

Greg Palmer,

“Action

PICYA Championships

Jackson”

Kevin Burrel,

and

Every July, unless they’re on strike, the

A total of 14 boats — four from the Bay,

together during the midseason break for an

Chuck Mellor.

best

professional

baseball

players

get

five from Santa Cruz, three from Huntington

all-star

Lake, and one each from Colorado and

League won 2-1 over the National League.

Oregon

—

participated

game.

This

year,

the

American

in the Monterey

And, as usual, a lot of sportswriters yawned

Peninsula YC hosted event. Four of the five

the whole thing off, questioning what — if

races in the no-throwout series were buoy

anything — it really proved.

races on Monterey Bay with the wind in the

finest sailors and weapons into battle against each other. This year, the games were held

The Bay’s equivalent of an all-star game is

on the blustery weekend of July 9-10. Four divisions (Islander 36, Santana 22, El Toro and

PHRF

class

for

boats

between

120-144) sailed three races and when the whole thing was over, we’re not sure what — if anything — it proved. But we can tell you everyone involved in the interclub contest had fun, especially the members of the Richmond YC all-stars, who dominated the festivities by winning three of the four events. St. Francis YC had the next cc

best scores, followed by San Francisco YC. Each club tries to put up their best talent in

<J D X

each of the four categories, which is enough of an excuse to run everyone’s name who crewed on a winning boat. Chris Corlett, who came out of retirement to win the Big

o u 8-18 knot range. The other race was a 20

Four-fifths of the 'Pearl' crew. From left. Palmer,

mile “distance” race, basically a lap around

Burrel, Adam and owner. Bill Riley.

the southern half of Monterey Bay. That race

Lipton Cup for Richmond YC, was assisted on their Islander 36 Williwa by owner Rich Fordiani, Hogan Beatie, Mike Bruzzone, Jim “Dad” Gregory, Doug Hodges, Ike Man¬ chester, Joe McCoy, Jim Robbins, and Rick

featured fog, lots of kelp, and oscillating

the annual Pacific Interclub Yacht Associa¬

wind shifts (the latter two, according to Riley,

tion Championship Regatta, wherein each of

“I think we deserved to win,” said Corlett,

are “things we Bay sailors only read about”).

the 87 member clubs are invited to send their

who also belongs to runner-up St. Francis

Schuldt.

‘ '

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cisco Bay has stripped Irv Loube’s Bravura of her class victory in February’s Corinthian YC Midwinters for not having a PHRF certificate. The race invitation specified that Bay PH ratings would be used; Bravura didn’t (and, as of this writing, still doesn’t) have one, so the Corinthian YC took it on themselves to assign

them

one.

Well,

two:

the

first

weekend they gave Bravura a 72 rating, the second weekend they knocked them down to 66. Max Gordon, whose Baltic 42 Bydand was the runner-up to Bravura in the series, protested Bravura for the infraction. Corin¬ thian YC — acting, it would seem, as the judge, jury and executioner — denied the protest.

Roger Eldridge and his appeals

committee subsequently overrode that deci¬ sion. The moral of the story, we suppose, is that everyone should spend $20 for a valid PHRF certificate.

Moonlight Race San

Francisco

YC’s

annual

Midnight

Moonlight Maritime Marathon (MMMM) at¬ tracted 23 boats to their Raccoon Strait start¬ ing line on Saturday evening, July 9. A Cal 20, Samsara, led off the reverse handicap ‘Fast Forward' in close quarters during the Lipton

YC. “We did our homework — we put in about 20 hours of sailing together before the regatta.”

They

also

beat

out

perennial

Islander 36 champ Eric Warner in a sailoff to see who would represent the club. Other Richmond YC members in the win¬ ner’s circle were young Jason Fain, who won the Chipsa El Toro contest, and the elusive Jim Lindsey, who along with his longtime sailing partner Bill Claussen and Steve Bates sailed his Santana 22 Seascape to yet another victory in the Little Lipton Cup. Breaking the Richmond YC stranglehold on the all-star games was Jim Coggan of San Francisco YC, who sailed George Vare’s 14-year-old Mull 32 Shadow to victory in the Larry Knight PHRF competition. It was the second Larry Knight victory for the boat: the Shadow won the same trophy a dozen years before.

Pulling

the

strings

for

Tad

Lacey,

Mark

Felton, and John Merrill.

Maymar,

Greg

five minutes later the largest boat, Jim Clark’s beautiful new Baltic 55 Allegro batted i clean-up. The first boat back — and therefore the winner — was Fred Paxton’s aptly named Ranger 23 Moonlight, which finished the 35.6-mile roundtrip up to the Carquinez Bridge and back at 1:08 on Sunday morn¬ ing. Finishing a minute behind Moonlight in the Moonlight Race moonless)

was

(which actually was

Moonshadow,

Wayne

Behrens’ Wylie 31. The possibilities for a “who’s-on-first” type of play on words here are mindboggling — we’ll let you make up your own. Checkmate (ex-Bullfrog), used her radar to pick her way through the fleet to come in third — not bad for her first race ever. Owner Clark, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, had a bit of high caliber help for the low key race:

Steve

Boome,

and

Taft, a

Duncan bunch

Kelso, other

Chris “usual

suspects” and their wives.

Coggan,

himself a four-time Larry Knight winner, were

BIG LIPTON (Islander 36) — 1) Williwa, Chris Corlett, RYC, 3.5 points; 2) Wild Onion, Billy George, StFYC, 4.75; 3) Windwaiker, John Williams, SYC, 11; 4) Blockbuster, Hal McCor¬ mack, SFYC, 12; 5) Shenanigan, Mike Fitzgerald, TYC, 13; 6) Fast Forward, Bob Schucharot, SCC, 18. LITTLE LIPTON (Santana 22) — 1) Seascape, Jim Lindsey, RYC, 2.25 points; 2) Nemesis, Mike Polkabla, StFYC; 3) Wil E Coyote, Bren Meyer, GGYC, 8; 4) Diamond Sky, Al Sargant, SFYC, 14; 5) (tie) Gust Buster, John P. Orfali, BYC, 17; 5) (tie) Shazam, Dave Hankel, IYC, 17; 7) Anomone, Mark Lindeman, EYC, 17; 8) Risky Business, Gary Cicerello, VYC, 24; 9) Mariah, Vern Huffer, SJSC, 27. LARRY KNIGHT — 1) Shadow, Jim Coggan, SFYC, 4.75 points; 2) Legacy, Mark Rastello, StFYC, 5.50; 3) Friction Factor, Jim Antrim, RYC, 8.80; 4) Abigail Morgan, Ron Kell, CYC, 10; 5) Limelight, Harry Blake, TYC, 12; 6) Risk, Jim Peterson, HMBYC, 16. CHISPA (El Toro) — 1) Jason Fain, RYC, 6.75 points; 2) Rick Moseley, SFYC, 9.75; 3) Walter J. Andrews, IYC, 10; 4) John-0 Walsh, TYC, 11.75; 5) (tie) George Martin, EYC, 12; 5) (tie) Paul Fuge, SJSC, 12; 7) Brandon Paine, StFYC, 21; 8) George Gromeeko, LGYC, 23.

“pursuit race” at 1800, and two hours and

Bravura Gets the Flick

A pair of J/29’s — ESC and Blazer —- had

After four months of deliberation, the ap¬

a terrific battle for fourth, with the former get¬

peals committee of the YRA of San Fran¬

ting the nod by a mere 20 seconds in the

THE RACING

end.

Race

committee

chairman

Bob

Christensen, who moved the start back a few hours this year for the tides (and because “a moonlight race should occur in the dark”), felt the funky combination of a reverse han¬ dicap

start

and the PHRF rule actually

worked really well. “We were amazed that all sizes of boats finished so closely together,” he claimed. All but two

boats finished

within

minutes of each other. The last boat in, Peter DeVrie’s

recently

purchased

Davidson

quarter tonner Fun, pulled in sometime after the race committee called it quits at 2:30. And yes, just about the time everyone was putting their boats and themselves to bed, the moon decided to come up. 1) Moonlight, Ranger 23, Fred Paxton; 2) Moonshadow, Wylie 31, Wayne Behrens; 3) Allegra, Baltic 55, Jim Clark; 4) ESC, J/29, Mark Roos; 5) Blazer, J/29, Michael Lambert; 6) Impossible, Ranger 23, Gary Kneeland; 7) Secret ot NIMH, Ex¬ press 37, Dailey/Lacey; 8) Animal Farm, Wylie 28, Ciaran Phibbs; 9) Spaetlese, Catalina 27, H. Fallant; 10) Nightwind, Ranger 23, Richard Sloan. (23 boats)

Silver Eagle Race What a bummer! Only three boats out of 74 starters managed to finish Island YC’s

coming and going. Most boats dropped out

Two steps forward, one step back . . . The Silver

July

inside-the-bay

late at night somewhere between the Bay

Eagle fleet stalled out in light air and a big flood off

distance race before the 9 a.m. Sunday

Bridge and the San Rafael Bridge, but not

Pt. Bonita.

morning time limit expired. Not surprisingly,

before some crew members started losing it

Because only boats with PHRF ratings

they were the three biggest boats in the race.

in the drifting conditions. “The radio was

between 50 and 174 are invited, each of the

Richard Leute’s Santa Cruz 50 Acey Deucy,

crackling with false reports of private 20 knot

five divisions was packed

fresh off a class victory in the Catalina Race,

puffs,” said Peterson. “One boat had Cup-o-

similar ratings. Winds were good for the tight

continued her hot streak by finishing first on

Soups but no water, and was trying to work

four-race, no throwout series and a new

elapsed and corrected time. Acey Deucy,

out a deal. Another boat was trying to get a

arbitration system (wherein offenders could

representing the Ballena Bay YC, finished

Domino’s Pizza delivered.”

plea bargain their way out of facing a DSQ in

16th

Silver

Eagle

with boats of

This was the slowest Silver Eagle in the 12

the Room by accepting a percentage penalty

year history of this popular race. The last

beforehand) handled the 19 protests quick¬

Next in was Hal Nelson’s MacGregor 65

three have been real smokers, and Peterson

ly. Flambuoyant, a J/35 owned by Barney

Zeus, which finished at 5:30 a.m. to claim

promises that next year’s race will once again

Flam of Long Beach YC and sailed by his

second place. The third and final finisher

feature lots of breeze. Because of the lack of

son

was Bob Klein’s Peterson 40 Leading Lady,

finishers, Island YC will use the allotted

which drifted backwards across the Golden

trophy money to send participation awards

Trophy for weekend.

Gate YC finishing line on the ebb at 8:00

to everyone that endured the race this year.

the 80-mile tour of the bay at 12:25 on Sunday morning.

that morning.

About ten other boats —

among them Tamen, Frida and Jackrabbit — gutted it out until the end, but couldn’t quite make it to the line.

Audi Sobstad Race Week While skeptics may point out that a PHRF Grand Prix event is a contradiction in terms,

“It wasn’t a pretty picture,” allowed race

that’s exactly how the promoters billed the

organizer Christine Peterson. Some boats

fourth annual Audi Sobstad Race Week,

took as long as six hours to get from the start¬

held in Long Beach on June 23-26. And

ing line to the buoy off Pt. Bonita; then, the

few, if any, of the participants on 104 boats

Bay Bridge parking lot nailed boats both

would take exception to that description.

Steve,

won best

the

new Audi

performance

Quattro of

the

CLASS A — 1) Flambuoyant, J/35, Steve & Barney Flam, LBYC, 6.25 points; 2) Buttercup, Schock 35, John Cazier, BYC, 13.05; 3) Raging Rosy, J/35, Bill Rosenberg, CIYC, 16. (23 boats, all J/35's and Schock 35’s) CLASS B — 1) It’s OK, R/P 42, Lewis Beery/Tom Willson, BYC, 6.25 points; 2) No Illusion, Swan 44, Ed McDowell, KHYC, 16; 3) Toboggan, Swan 42, Paul Queyrel, BYCi 19. (17 boats) CLASS C — 1) Salsa, Frers 36, Leonard Nadler/Chris Collins, DRYC, 10.25 points; 2) Mischief, Soverel 33, Carolyn Nelson, BCYC, 15; page I 62

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ounce material insteal of 3/4. We took off at

Blackaller’s Indians for this nautical ver¬

full blast on port jibe, water just pouring

sion of Custer’s Last Stand were Ron Ander¬

over the splashboards; we were all sitting as

son (pit), Scott Easom (main), Ken Keefe

far back as we could, bailing like crazy. We

(bow) and Hank Stuart (trim). “Another per¬

were half scared to death — with a boatful of water and a kite about to blow up — but

son deserves a lot of credit, too,” said Tom, “Phil Kaiko designed a new rudder for

when we looked back, the Aussies were

heavier air, and it transformed the boat. Our

totally knocked down, even more messed up

speed advantage came from a combination

than we were.”

of things, but Phil’s new rudder was the

the

second

downwind

leg,

while

single biggest difference.”

leading by about six minutes, the crew of the

The two 6-Meter sisterships (both are from

St. Francis IX set again, although this time it

the same Pelle Petterson mold) have met

was the 1.5 ounce kite. After almost sinking

several

the

that

Douglas was owned by Larry Harvey and

discretion was the better part of valor, and

called Miss Crocodile. St. Francis IX has

sailed the rest of the leg with a jib. It didn’t matter much — they went on to defeat the

never lost to her sistership, nor has the St. Francis YC lost the Am/Aus competition

Phil Thompson driven Port Douglas, their

since it began back in 1970.

boat

again,

Blackaller

decided

Australian rival, by a whopping 4 minutes and 19 seconds.

times

before,

back

when

Port

The yacht club is currently gearing up for the 6-Meter worlds in Sweden next summer

The other three races, while not nearly as exciting, were equally lopsided. Blackaller

— a new boat, St. Francis X, should be under construction in a few months. With

took three of the four starts and led at every

one of the fastest 6-Meters in existence as a

The 'St. Francis IX' five: (I to r) Ron Anderson,

trail horse, three of the best keelboat skippers

Hank

in the world to chose from (Blackaller, Paul

3) Bingo, CF 37, Bert Gardner/Hank Schofield, LBYC, 17. (20 boats) CLASS D — 1) Cobra, Catalina 38, Bill Huber, SYC, 11.75 points; 2) Celerity, Etchells 22, Steve Moffett, ABYC, 13.75; 3) Marishanna, Santana 35, Dave Dwoskin, CBYC, 14.5. (25 boats) CLASS E — 1) Gizmo, Farr 30, Drew Satarino, LBYC, 15.75 points; 2) I’ll Go, Chaser 29, Donald Preston, PMYC, 18.75; 3) Minor Details, Andrews 26, Chuck Cook & Rich Wickert, LBYC, 20. (20 boats)

Am/Aus Races “It was the most wind I’ve ever sailed a i. 6-Meter in,” began skipper Tom Blackaller, as he enthusiastically recounted the first race LATITUDF KAREN

i of the eighth American-Australian Challenge Trophy. “We had just rounded the weather mark up by Pt. Blunt and were heading back towards the Berkeley Circle with the chute up when a 40-knot puff rolled through. The boat rolled to weather just like an IOR boat and then just hung there, going along on it’s side* For awhile I thought we were going to send it to the bottom! “We pulled out of

Stuart,

Ken

Keefe,

Scott

Easom,

Tom

Blackaller. On to Sweden?

Cayard and John Kostecki), and probably

jibed

mark, winning by 2:30 in the second race,

more 6-Meter experience than any other

somehow, and put a three foot hole in the

4:43 in the third and 2:20 in the last of the

club in the world, we figure that St.Francis X

middle part of the kite — where it’s 1/2

four out of seven series.

will be the boat to beat next summer.

page 163

that

one,

THE RACING

Marui/O’Neill Windsurfing Tour

An indication of the speeds at which these

The world’s best boardsailors converged at

sailors are now competing: Tom Martin,

Crissy Field from June 29th to July 3rd for the second Marui/O’Neill World Tour. In

who drove a chase boat for visiting photo¬ graphers, said he fished one competitor out

winds ranging from mild to near nuclear, the

of the water who had been launched by a

70 men and 19 women from 23 nations

puff and his head had gone through his sail!

ripped and shredded the waters east of the

“The sail was shredded,” reports Tom, “and

Golden Gate to the delight of several thou¬

he had a pretty sore neck.” , In addition to the course racing, qualified

sand onshore spectactors. Foreigners dominated the standings, led

local sailors got to play with the big kids in

by tall, blond Anders Bringdal of Sweden in

the 10th annual Berkeley Classic, a 20 mile

the

Nathalie

race from Crissy Field to Berkeley-by way of

LeLievre of France in the women’s. Bringdal

the Golden Gate. Clear skies lured several

topped out with five bullets, far ahead of sec¬

sailors, such as Alameda’s Bard Chrisman,

men’s

division

and

petite

ond place Bjorn Dunkerbeck, the 18-year-

into using big sails, but the wind kicked in

old wunderkind from Spain. Bjorn’s sister,

between Alcatraz and Angel Island, causing

17-year-old Britt, took second to LeLievre.

pulses to race. Almost a third of the 150

The women’s pair tied on total points, but

entry fleet failed to complete the course.

LeLievre won the tie breaker. Putting on a tremendous display was

surfers, bicyclists and runners combined their

Santa Cruz’s Trevor Baylis, who placed 8th

talents in the Reach, Ride and Run competi¬

overall. “My dream was to place in the top

tion.

nineteen

“It’s all in the family,” said Eric, a 29-year-

ten,” said Trevor at the awards ceremony,

teams vied for prizes, with San Francisco’s

old Oakland engineer. The Fieberlings have

Tim Itin repeating as the solo men’s champ

been sailing Hot Ruddered Bum for

and Katie Griffith from Marin taking the

years, with their best previous showing in a

women’s crown.

Nationals being a second place six years ago.

MARUI/O’NEILL WORLD TOUR - Men: 1) Anders Bringdal, Sweden, 3.5 pts; 2) Bjorn Dunderbeck, Spain, 11.7 pts; 3) Stephan Van Den Berg, Holland, 15.0 pts. Women: 1) Nathalie LeLievre, France, 7.4 pts; 2) Britt Dunderbeck, Spain, 7.4 pts; 3) Anick Graveline, Canada, 10.4 pts. (1988 Marui/O’Neill Overall winners —- Men: Bjorn Dunderbeck. Women: Nathalie Siebel, West Germany.

Interestingly, Wilson makes his own sails for

Also for the second year in a row, wind¬

Nineteen

individuals

and

O’NEILL BERKELEY CLASSIC - 1) Phil McGain, Australia, 1:17:22; 2) Stephan Van Den Berg, Holland, 1:18:02; 3) Robby Naish, Hawaii, 1:18:05. Top Women: Anick Graveline, Canada, 1:34:42. Top Master (35 and over): Bard Chrisman, Alameda, 1:22:52. Top Production Board: Warren Seward, Berkeley, 1:30:07. Top Master Production Board: Paul Heineken, Larkspur, 1:43:16.

his Santana 22. “My dad cuts them out of dacron,

glues them together and,

these

days, takes them to Larsen to get stitched. He wrecked too many sewing machines doing it himself.” Hot Ruddered Bum was the only boat to come down from the Bay for the moderate wind event. Unfortunately, the Little Lipton Cup, which was sailed in Santana 22’s the same weekend, cut into the number of par¬ ticipants. Apparently, the PICYA kingpins switched the Little Lipton from Cal 20’s to Santana 22’s after the latter’s nationals were already scheduled. Next year, the Santana 22 nationals will be hosted by the Corinthian

Santana 22 Nationals The Santana 22 Nationals, held in con¬ junction with the Olson 25 Nationals on July 8-10 at Monterey Peninsula YC, were a family affair aboard the winner Hot Rud¬ dered Bum. The father/son team of Wilson Retired ‘Latitude' employee Shimon Van Collie carv¬ ing up the Bay in the O'Neill Berkeley Classic.

YC on July 1-3. 1) Hot Ruddered Bum, Eric & Wilson Fieberling, Oakland; 2) For Sure, Eric Peterson, Santa Cruz; 3) #90, Blair Olsen, Fresno; 4) Krash, Charles Kurtman, Fresno; 5) Surge II, Charles Rozckoz, Santa Cruz. (9 boats)

Fieberling (father, boat owner and sail trim¬ mer) and son Eric (driver) beat eight other sisterships,

putting

together

Kenwood Cup

1,4,1,1,2

Forty-five boats from eight countries were

record to edge out Dr. Eric Peterson’s For

signed up for the bienniel Kenwood Cup as

“and now that it’s over I realize that was a

Sure by 3.5 points. Splitting the crewing

we go to press. It’s a small but impressive

crazy dream! There were guys behind me

chores for the Fieberlings during the five race

fleet: 11 maxi’s, 3 ULDB maxi’s, 13 one ton-

that are incredibly good.”

series were, naturally, Eric’s mom (Wilson’s

ners, and 15 high octane gold platers in the page 164

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at 8:15 on Sunday, July 3 — just over 24

Gate once before, as a crewmember in the

hours after the Saturday morning start at St. Francis YC. You don’t need a computer or a

Farallones Race on the half tonner Petrified. “My crew talked me into entering,” Riess

calculator to figure out that this race was

explained, “Mainly we looked at it as a fun

really, really slow. Vivace, Bill Riess’ three-year-old Olson

way to get the boat to Monterey for our class

25, straggled in at 10:42 a.m., correcting out as the overall winner by 15 minutes over

Riess was quick to give full credit to his crew — “I was the least experienced person

Absolute 88. For Riess, who sails for the Cal

on board,” he claimed. Sailing on Vivace

nationals (held July 8-10).”

1988 Kenwood Cup Entry List Class

-'Design

E E D

■

: : Andrews 39 N/M 50

A A

USA. U.S A I.S A.

■

e c E

Santana 22 Nationals? No, it’s a pair of 22's round¬

Australia ■

ing Crissy in the Little Lipton,

middle

classes.

Eight

countries

are

represented: the U.S. (15 entries), Japan (12),

Australia

(10),

England

(3),

34.03

D A D D C f E

New

Zealand (2), and one each from France, Italy

Gardmi

Frets 80 UK. U S.A. U.S.A

■

and Brazil. Of the 15 U.S. entries, only

-■

Japan

31.05

Bravura is from Northern California, a sad B A E ■

decline from the days when Bullfrog, Scarlett and Great Fun ruled the seas. The

U.S.

teams

consist

Bravura,

30.82

■

Yokoyama 40 '/■: ■

Champosa V and Insatiable on-the red team; 33.10

D D

General Flospital, Jubilation and Quintes¬ sence make up the white team. Among the luminaries in attendance will be Dennis Con¬ nor

(Kialoa),

Australian ESPN’s

Peter Gilmour

John

Gary

Bertrand Jobson

(Sovereign),

(Great News),

(Matador),

(Indulgence),

and

' ' USA. Australia ■ •- : ar<

rlsche; :

30.55

£ E 0 A A 0

Robbie

Haines (Insatiable).

Ocean Newcomer Wins Boreas Race

■

Only six boats out of 19 starters managed to finish Elkhorn YC’s 37th annual 84-mile

■n 80

Lee 70

Paul

Cayard and Iain Murray (II Moro), Eddie Warden-Owen

69.80 33.07 -

30 46 32.64

Sorcery 7099

July 2-3. Usually this race is a quick down¬

Pedrtck 83

Japan USA , "

Takei 44

33 78 V : ?0 59

i: $ L

race from San Francisco to Moss Landing on

Appleby ■

30.50

Sagacious V

Farr 43 Frers 40 Takal 40 ;

61 86 40.16

U.K.

. w1.

-; Mutr ■ Aisher

wind sprint — a slightly longer and windier version of the Windjammers Race — but this year conditions were painfully light. The first finisher,

Keith

MacBeth’s new Wylie

Absolute 88, limped into Moss Landing first

Sailing Club, it was a particularly sweet vie-

were Steve Becker, Ellen Carothers, Chris

tQry — n vvas his ocean racing debut as an

Nash, and navigator John Liebenberg (who

owner. In fact, he’d only been outside the

owns Friday, the 13th Express 27). Accord-

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THE RACING

ing to Reiss, the hardest part of the race was trying not to fall asleep on watch as the boat slatted around in the light conditions. The best part, aside from Ellen’s chicken dinner and homemade cookies, was “crossing the finish line, bleary-eyed and exhausted, and finding out how well we’d done. It was a real thrill!” Riess is already checking his calendar to find out when the next ocean race occurs. Complete results follow: Class A — 1) Vivace, Olson 25, Bill Riess; 2) Absolute 88, Wylie 37, Keith MacBeth; 3) -Scan¬ dalous, Olson 30, Dave Mosher; 4) Elusive, Express 37, Dick Desmaris. (3 others DNF) Class B — 1) Jackrabbit, Islander 40, Dave Ligett; 2) Excitable, Comp. 1000, John Martindale. (10 others DNF)

Adams Cup Semi-Finals As expected, San Francisco YC’s Susie Madrigali easily defeated a field of six con¬ testants in the Richmond YC hosted Adam’s Cup semi-finals on the weekend of July 16-17. At stake was the right to represent Northern California in the Adam’s Cup — the pinnacle of women’s keelboat sailing in was

Bloom County’, the boat to beat in the Midget

Washington. Susie, who finished second in

fourth; Linda Corrado Roy of Corinthian YC

Ocean, pulled off the hat trick in the Pete Smith

the Adam’s Cup last year in Florida, should

was fifth; and Terry Adler of Sausalito YC

Series.

be one of the favored entries in the finals,

was sixth

the U.S. — on August 17-21 up in Everett,

Shirley Temming

Encinal

Melson, Stockton SC, 2.25 points; 2) Summertime Dream, Schumacher 26, Corry Cook, CSC, 3.5; 3) Animal Farm, Wylie 28, Rod Phibbs & Sons, TYC,

which will be held in J/22’s. The six-race,

Pete Smith Series

one-throwout elimination

series was held in J/24’s in light to moderate air. Courses were short (one race took only

For the third year in a row, Carl and Mark Ondry

sailed

their

Mancebo

Bloom

19 minutes) and the headsail selection was

County to overall victory in the first half of

limited to #3’s, so the racing was fairly tame.

the

Madrigali, in yachting parlance, kicked butt

ocean season. The four-race, one-throwout

— five firsts and a fourth (due to a misinter¬

series, which is named in honor of Pete

Midget

Ocean

(Dee’s

Racing

father),

Association’s

consisted

10.

OVERALL — 1) Bloom County, 3.5 points; 2) UXB, 7.75; 3) (tie) Candace Ann and Anna Banana, 10.

HDA Halftime Scores While we’re on the subject of halftime

pretation of the rather vaguely worded in¬

Smith

the

scores, here are the results of the first half of

structions while they were leading). After the

Lightship, Jr. Waterhouse, Farallones and

the Handicap Racing Association’s summer

throwout, she sailed a perfect series.

Corlett races.

season. Results are preliminary, pending a

“You can’t sail these boats alone,” said

However, Bloom County wasn’t alone in

Susie. “I’m lucky to have a great crew.” Sail¬

winning the light division, as reported here

and no throwouts (normally, it would be a

ing with Madrigali were Vicki Sodaro (bow),

last month — she tied with UXB. Nor did

five-race,

Stephanie Wondolleck (middle) and Anna

Summertime Dream win the heavy division.

cancellation of the Vallejo Race changed that).

Peachy (trimmer). Corinthian YC’s Marsha

It seems there was a major snafu with the

Peck Mahoney finished second, assisted by

results of the Farallon Race, which in turn

Alice Creedens, Pam Eldridge, and Helena

effected the overall results. Correct results follow:

Guy. Alex Monson, sailing for the Cal Sail¬ ing Club, came in a close third — in fact, the difference between second and third place was settled afterwards in the protest room. Alex’s crew was Rhonda Fleming, Katherine Kipp, and Liz Whitney.

LIGHT DIV. - 1) UXB, Express 27, Pat Strange, RYC, 3.5 points; 2) Bloom County, Mancebo 30, Carl and Mark Ondry, SYC, 3.5; 3) Anna Banana, Moore 24, Joe Durrett, NPYC, 6.75. HEAVY DIV. — 1) Candace Ann, Cal 2-27, Mark

few protests. They’re based on four races one-throwout

series

but

the

DIV. F — 1) Sail la Vie, Jan Borjeson, CYC, 7.5 points; 2) Pik Off, John Jansheski, SFYC, 11.75; (4 boats) DIV. H — 1) Tres Equis, Rick Lowery, SYC, 3 points; 2) Miss Conduct, Tom Mason, StkSC, 11. (4 boats) DIV. J — 1) Wavetrain, Rick Caskey, BYC, 4.25 points; 2) Storm Rider, Greg Warner, RYC, 12; 3) Harp, Mike Mannix, IYC, 15. (14 boats) page 166

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on the Bay. Your loss is our gain, as YRA

breeze against the ebb — wreaked havoc on

will

the fleet. Bert Clausen’s Etchells was dismasted;

donate

all

unclaimed

trophies

Latitude. Were going to weld them together be

Vito Bialla’s Etchells retired with gear failure.

displayed in our new office space. If you

One Soling retired when unable to recover a

don’t want your pickle dish to be forever im¬ mortalized in our “Victory at Sea” artwork,

to the rescue); another Soling retired after

into

gigantic

sculpture

which

will

man overboard (a nearby camera boat came

run — don’t walk — down to the YRA office.

successfully recovering a man overboard,

Here goes: from 1980, Unlikely, Oooh

San Francisco Bay,” claimed race chairman

No!. From 1982: Intrepid Fox, Amara, Joint

George Horsfall. ETCHELLS 22 — 1) Celebration, Chris Boome, StFYC, 15.75 points; 2) Puzzling Evidence, Rob Anderson, RYC, 16.75; 3) Libra, John Dreyfous, SFYC, 23; 4) Sabik, John Sutak, CYC, 24. (8 boats) SOLING — 1) Olive Oyl, Kevin Reilly, CYC, 4.75 points; 2) Gunsmoke, Mark Murray, CYC, 5.75; 3) Brushfire, Dan Afflerbah, NPYC, 7.75; 4) Gael Force, D. Harcourt, CYC, 11. (8 boats)

Venture, Lionheart. From 1983: Schatje, Second Stage, 1984:

Bravura,

Calliope,

Blue

Sorcerer.

Goose,

From

Tesserae,

Navstar. From 1985: Sheba, Blue Blazer, Onager, No News, Avocet, Cannibal, Red Rider, Dinkyramb, Concubine, Good Time, PDQ I,

Firecracker,

Nob

Hill,

Chamde.

and so on. “Just another great regatta on

Wavelength, Moria, Red Rider, Suzi, Pearl, Blazin ’ J. In 1986, we have Smokin’ J, Windjam¬ mer,

Olson 30 Nationals Animal House, owned by Santa Cruzians

Summer

Palace,

Paradigm

Lost,

Matt Lezin and Tom Akrop, rudely stomped on 14 sisterships on Lake Tahoe between

Zodiac, Don Wan, Mesmerize, Still Smokin’,

July 4-8 to claim the 1988 Olson 30 Na¬

Cinnabar, Mona Too, Breezin’, Temptation,

tionals. Unlike the 1984 nationals on Lake

Mercedes and Three Sheets. Last, but not least, from 1987: Blue Lou, Neblina, Good Time, DIV. K — 1) Pretty Penny, Roger Strawbridge, fSFYC, 8.50 points; 2) Blue Lou, Walt Featherstone, SMYC, 9.75; 3) Sonata, Lockwood/Weaver, RYC, 17. (11 boats) DIV. L — 1) Chocolate Ship, Bob & Dan Halem, IYC, 14 points; 2) Crinan, Bill West, EYC, 14.25; 3) Intrepid Fox, Fitzmaurice/Richards, CSC, 14.75. (13 boats) DIV. M — 1) Grenadier, Paul Osborn, TYC, 4.25 points; 2) Slow Dancer, Dennis Beckley, RYC, 19; 3) Babies on Board, Roger Brewton, BVBC, 23. (18 boats)

Tintagel,

Ann,

Many of the above boats have multiple trophies at the YRA office. Some even have an

instant

waiting

mantlepiece

(winners

claimed

trophies

just

this

category include Wavelength with eight and Suzi with six). And remember — if you don’t want

them,

maybe

your

crew

would

appreciate them. And

Public Service Announcement

Angel

Ruckus, Dancer, Twisted.

while

trophy(s), Lauren Carlisle, our local YRA secretary,

Wavetrain,

Gratia, Vim, Rum Turn Tugger, Amante,

you’re

picking

your

introduce yourself to Lauren’s

new assistant, Sherry Perry. Sherry, a Cor¬ onado 25 and Lido 14 sailor, took over for

recently sent us a list of trophies which have

Robin

been collecting dust in her office. If your

Svendsen’s Boatyard in Alameda — in early

West

—

who

now

works

boat’s name appears below, you may be

May. Maybe Sherry can tell you what will

joyfully reunited with what’s rightfully yours

really happen to any trophies that remain

by stopping by the YRA office in Fort Mason.

unclaimed.

Office hours are 9 to 5, Monday through Fri¬ day,

but

Lauren

suggests calling

(771-9500) anyway to arrange an appoint¬ ment.

Warning:

don’t

even

Etchells & Soling Regatta

ahead

contemplate

asking her to mail you your trophy.

Eight Etchells 22’s and a like number of

Congratulations to Sausalito's Mike Reppy for win¬

Solings sailed three races around temporary

ning his class in the CSTAR. We'll be talking with him

marks

next month.

the

Southampton

Shoal

If you don’t pick up your stuff in a few

neighborhood on July 9. Corinthian YC

months, it’ll be assumed — and why not? —

hosted the gnarly event, which sounded like

Tahoe, when someone forgot to invite the

that you’re not the kind of person who cares

more of a survival contest than a regatta. A

wind, this year’s event featured 25 knots of

about material reminders of a winning day

heavy chop — the result of 30 knots of

wind for the first half of the seven-race, one-

page 167

THE RACING

throwout series, before it went light and shif¬

five year hiatus, they’ll once again be held on X

ty for the last half. Animal House, steered by

San Francisco Bay. 1) Animal House, Akrop/Lezin/ Shorett, Santa Cruz, 9 points; 2) Fubar, Smith/Robertson, South Lake Tahoe, 16; 3) Kabala, Gloves Bennett, Santa Cruz, 25.75; 4) Cherie Bearie, Larry Long, San Diego, 30.75; 5) Think Fast, Al Holt, San Francisco, 31; 6) Corsair, Don Newman, South Lake Tahoe, 31.75; 7) Mas Rapido, John Fradkin, Newport Beach, 37; 8) Insatiable, Trabert/Richards, South Lake Tahoe, 42; 9) Stray Cat, Do8g Kirk, Santa Cruz, 49; 10) Killer Rabbit, Bill Coverdale, San Francisco, 51. (15 boats)

Peter Shorett, led the regatta from the begin¬ ning, accumulating four lsts, two 3rds, and a 10th. The latter score, which they threw out, was earned by sailing to the wrong mark in the distance race, which Lezin descibed as “a joke, an 11-mile parade.” The cleverly named Fubar, sailed by Ted Smith and Lester Robertson for the host Windjammers YC,

displayed

good

local

knowledge in the 15-20 degree .windshifts to

Lake Tahoe Sail Week

come in second. Jay “Gloves” Bennett of Santa Cruz sailed Kabala to a distant third place

finish.

(Bennett

picked

Winds were strong initially for the annual

his

Fourth of July race week on Lake Tahoe,

nickname at the ’84 nationals when he ap¬

then tapered off as the week wore on. By the

parently got a little physical in a protest hear¬

time

ing.)

occurred, the breeze was back to normal, i.e.

The five-boat contingent from San

Francisco

didn’t

exactly

distinguish

the

31-mile

Trans-Tahoe

finale

fickle and shifty. “I’ve been sailing on the

themselves — only A1 Holt’s Think Fast put in a decent showing, coming in fifth. Lezin and Akrop, who’ve always been contenders at the nationals but never pulled it off until now, figure they won because they sailed with a crew of only six. “We carried the #2 upwind, feathering all the time, while everyone

else

crewmembers. downwind

had

#3’s

and

Olson 30, Don Newman; 3) Insatiable, Olson 30, B. Richards. DIV B — 1) Mr. McGregor, Wylie Wabbit, Stephanie Wondolleck; 2) Rad Hatter, Wylie Wab¬ bit, Bill Erkelens, Jr.; 3) Contagious, Santana 525, Pat Mitchell. DIV C — 1) Second Chance, Santana 20, Jack Hammaker; 2) Madman Across the Water, Santana 20, Steve Kateman; 3) Luzviminda, Santana 20, Dave Wakeman. FIRECRACKER REGATTA (July 4) — 1) Xanadu, Merit 25, Bill Glass; 2) Rad Hatter, Wylie Wabbit, Bill Erkelens Jr. TUESDAY PHRF (July 5) — 1) Mr. McGregor, Wylie Wabbit, Stephanie Wondelleck; 2) Madman Across the Water, Santana 20, Steve Kateman. WORLD & INTERGALACTIC BEER CAN (July 6) — 1) Cherie Berry, Olson 30, Larry Long; 2) Lois Lane, Wylie 40, Bill Erkelens; 3) Leta B, Catalina 30, Jerry Lucas. LADIES' DAY (July 7): DIV A — 1) Hobie Wan, Hobie 33, Suzy Kinstler; 2) Zephyros, Olson 30, Deborah Broussard/Ann Oliver. DIV B — 1) Con¬ tagious, Santana 525, Peggy Carter; 2) Sno Job, J/24, Judi McCallum. DIV C — 1) Luzviminda, San¬ tana 20, Janet Roy; 2) Cheap Thrills, Santana 20, M. Sinkevich. OVERALL — 1) Hobie Wan, Hobie 33, Suzy Kinstler; 2) Zephyros, Olson 30, Deborah Broussard/Ann Oliver; 3) Contagious, Santana 525, Peggy Carter. TRANS-TAHOE (July 9) — 1) California Kiwi, New Zealand 33, Gary Hack; 2) High Frequency, Wavelength 24, C. Bell/R. Merle; 3) Sacre Bleu, Santa Cruz 27, Ross Groelz.

seven

We also had really good

speed,”

said

Lezin.

Citius Rig Controversy

Another

)

One of the first things the fledgling ULDB

reason they figure they won was that they

70 Association did following its inception

consumed more alcohol than anyone else:

after the ’87 TransPac was to ban long-pole,

“We noticed a definite relationship between

big kite “turbo mode” sled racing. Indeed,

how hungover we were and how well we

one of the purposes of the organization was

did. We were more relaxed after partying all night.”

to keep the sleds configured similarly. Now,

Completing

the

tight-knit

Brothers” crew were

Brian

they’ve got a new problem on their hands,

“Animal

Carroll,

and it’s turning into a real can of worms. The

Eric

issue is what to do with the Santa Cruz 70

Malmberg and Jeff “Conan” Wallace. Why

Citius, which several months ago stunned

the name Animal House? “We’ve been sail¬

the sled kingdom by converting to a taller,

ing together for five or six years, and, well, 1

four spreader fractional rig. With 200 more

guess we’re all kind of slobs, so the name

square feet of sail area than before, Citius

fits,” laughed Lezin. “Our boat’s always the

was plenty fast in the Cal Cup even in a

dirtiest one in the fleet, the one with beer

relatively untuned state. Unfortunately, they

cans left all over the decks. We’ll never win

managed

any shipshape awards!” Indeed, the House

What's this guy doing? We’re not sure; he mumbled

sailed the regatta with a big duct tape ban¬

something about 'safe sailing'.

dage on the side, which covered a five inch

finish

DFL

after

being

disqualified in two races. Still, the owners and industry pro’s rea¬ lized that Citius had shown bursts of blazing

hole they incurred before the regatta had

lake 20 years and I still haven’t figured it

speed and had the potential to obsolesce the

even begun. Apparently the boat that was

out,” claimed overall Trans-Tahoe winner

fleet.

towing them out of the harbor ran aground

Gary Hack, who sailed his New Zealand

Latin — a name which suddenly rings all too

and

built, winged-keel 36-footer to victory over 50 other boats.

true. Yet, Citius, which is owned by a syn¬

they

plowed

into

it.

“It

was

inauspicious start,” admits Lezin. According

class

president

Don

Newman, this was the best Olson 30 na¬ tionals in recent memory. Next July, after a

Results of the various races follow: INDEPENDENCE REGATTA (July 2-3): DIV A — 1) Cherie Berry, Olson 30, Larry Long; 2) Corsair,

Ironically,

Citius means “faster” in

dicate headed by Bill Wilson, made the switch (rumored* to cost nearly $100,000) legally and openly and, if anything, deserves to be commended for having the courage of page 168

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slam-dunk), and if so, whether Citius may race “with her existing fractional rig through June of 1991 or until the present fractional mast falls down, whichever comes first”. The latter issue is the hot potato, but frankly we don’t see how Citius couldn’t be “grandfathered” into the class, especially in today’s litigious society. (Imagine if Blackaller’s eight million dollar geek/canard rudder experiment had shown up in Perth, only to be banned from the race course?) How to grandfather Citius fairly will be the difficult issue — don’t be surprised if they’re arbitrarily given a higher handicap (probably a rating of 71) until the IOR rule changes (which may happen at the fall meeting in Cleveland) or until Citius’ performance is more closely identified. It’ll be an interesting issue to follow, and we’ll keep you posted. Personally, we wish the owners would hurry up and make up their minds: until the masthead/fractional drama is resolved, we’ve been forced to halt construction on Rosebud, the Latitude 38 sled. Rosebud was to have been a fractional rig (simply because of the IOR advantage) — now, to the delight of the women and the cruisers in the office, we’re back to looking into a more “civilized” masthead rig. One way or the other, our sled, which we’ve nicknamed Bud, will still feature red and blue graphics over a white aluminum hull.

Race Notes The Corinthian YC Lightship Race on July 2nd was an exercise in frustation for both the sponsor and the racers. Only 15 boats showed up at the Little Harding start¬ ing line,

presumably due to competition

from the Catalina Race. Then, to add insult to injury, no one — not even the several Ex¬ ‘Citius' (I) being chased by ‘Mongoose’ at the Cal

press 37’s — was able to finish. In fact, in

experiment. As shown by one tonners and lately 45

Cup. Will they kill the messenger?

light air against the flood none of the fleet

foot Admiral’s Cuppers (Sidewinder) and Windward Passage), the

the sailing equivalent of being sent to Siberia. The ULDB class is contemplating outlawing

Bonita. This is the third year Corinthian YC has

IOR rule is out of balance when it comes to

Citius from future class events, essentially

sponsored the race; previously, it was the

rating

killing the messenger — or sacrificing the

domain of Aeolian YC. “Next year, we’ll be

technological advances and mainsail rule

guinea pig — for bringing them the news that

taking a long, hard look at how to increase

changes definitely have swung the pen¬

fractional rigs do in fact work on sleds.

participation,” said race committee chairman

dulum in favor of fractional rigs these days.

Owners are currently balloting through the

Citius merely was the first, and now probably

mail on two questions: whether to limit all

George Horsfall. The United States won’t be sending a

last, sled to capitalize on this discepancy.

class events until 1992 to masthead boats

team to Italy for late August’s bienniel Sar¬

Unfortunately, their “reward” for opening

(an informal poll of owners and interested

dinia Cup this year. Ben Mitchell, head of

this particular Pandora’s Box could well be

bystanders suggests that this one will be a

USYRU’s offshore team selection commit-

maxi’s (II Moro,

page 169

fractional

vs.

masthead

rigs

made it more than a few miles past Pt.

THE RACING SHEET

tee, cited the high cost of shipping boats to

Recent

Europe, as well as the cost'of campaigning

Jackrabbit, Audacious, and three J/35’s.

converts

include

Leading

Lady,

828-7407. “Just don’t tell Dan and Linda Newland,

Jim

Gannon

and

Rhonda

them there, as the main reasons for the no-show.

his brother Jon for the right to attend the

The inaugural World Corporate Games

Mallory Cup — the USYRU men’s keelboat

firmly planted in cheek. The 12th biennial Vic-Maui Race, which

championship

are

scheduled

for

October

through

St. Francis YC’s Phil Perkins edged oub-

Fleming, about this,” said Fraze, tongue

South

was sailed in relatively mild conditions, was

November 5 in San Francisco. Up to 10,000

Carolina, on August 29 through September

won overall by Harry DeKleer’s Fraser 41

athletes representing various corporations

3. The Corinithian YC hosted the five race,

Omega. DeKleer also won division three

from around the country are expected to

light air elimination series in borrowed (and

honors in the process. Other class winners in

—

in Charlestown,

compete in 20 sports. The sailing competi¬

badly mismatched) Cal 20’s on Richardson

the 2,308-mile IOR race from Vancouver to

tion takes place in Mistral Malibu sailboards,

Bay on July 16. Results: l),Phil Perkins,

Lahaina were Wally Schwenk’s SC 40 Ajax

Lasers, Hobie 16’s, and J/24’s. Call (415)

St.FYC, 7.75; 2) Jon Perkins, SFYC, 8.75;

in division one and Tom White’s C&C 41 Jo

781-1988 for more information.

3) Jerry Langkammerer, GGYC, 9.75; 4)

in division two. First-to-finish in the 18 boat

The first North/South Team Race, which was to pit the Bay Area Santana 35

Rob

fleet was Tom Sullivan's SC 50 Palmtree

Anderson,

RYC,

10.75;

Sheets, GGYC, 11.75.

fleet against the SoCal Schock 35 fleet on

The

Midget

Mike

Express.

v '

Ocean

Racing x Club

Satisfaction, owned by Jorge Lee and

July 22-24, was cancelled. Too bad, it was

(MORC) will hold its Internationals out of

an intriguing concept —- five on five in San¬

Newport Harbor YC between August 20-27.

tana 35’s this year; next year it would have

“We hope to get 50 or so boats in the Inter¬

been in Schock 35’s down south. According

nationals,” said MORC guru Harry Pattison,

Etchells 22’s. John Ravissa’s Bogota came in

to Shelley Graham, there were a lot of last

“It all depends if we can entice the produc¬

second in the three-race event, followed by

minute logistical and insurance problems

tion boats back out to the race track.” The

Duane Hine’s Boxes, Chuck Mohn’s 600,

which could not be overcome. The Santana

regatta

and Vito Bialla’s Fine Line.

custom and production boats, all of which

Nationals,

however,

will

scheduled on August 18-21.

will

offer

separate

divisions

for

have to be under 30 feet.

Hughes, and steered by Jeff Madrigali, won the StFYC’s annual Simp¬ son Regatta on July 23 over 17 other Richard

The J/24 District Championship, a five-race series at the StFYC on July 23, was

The hottest one tonner on the Great

This is the last time in the near future that

Lakes, John Uznis’ N/M 40 Challenge ’88,

the MORC Internationals will be held op the

windy regatta attracted 19 boats. Perkins,

is currently leading the Joubert/Nivelt 40

west coast. The next three events will occur

sailing

Trader in the Canada’s Cup Challenger Trials. Challenge ’88, which came in third in

in Sarnia, Michigan (1989); Duluth, Min¬

Finishing second with 10 points was Keith

nesota (1990), and Fishing Bay YC, Virginia

Milne, who named his boat Slow on Purpose

the

record,

(1991). For more info on the Internationals

for the weekend; Frank Alexander drove

should be the U.S. challenger against Cana¬

Illusion to a close third (10.25 points).

Canada’s Cup on August 20-28. Then, it’ll

or MORC in general, call Pattison at (714) 673-2180. Remember the nursery rhyme about Jack

presented annually to the American sailor

dian

NA’s with Farr

a 6,2,DNF,1,1,1 Steadfast

AT&T

the

be onto a truck for a 90-mile-an-hour trip to

and Jill? About how they entered a bunch

the Bay for the One Ton Worlds and the Big

Boat Series. Don’t be surprised if the boat

“Jack

doublehanded and

Jill

yacht racing

races is

the

won by Chris Perkins. The moderately his Dejavu,

amassed

6.5 points.

The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Trophy, USYRU’s annual sportsmanship award, is

together?

“who best exemplifies the ideals and tradi¬

term

for

tions of good sportsmanship.” Last year — the first that the trophy was awarded — it

has a new name next time you hear about

doublehanded races sailed by members of

her: supposedly Toyota has dumped a carful

the opposite sex,” explains MORA com¬

went to popular supersailor Buddy Melges.

of money on the project, and as part of the

modore Bud Frazc.

This year,

deal the boat will be renamed Team Toyota.

Gloria have been doublehanding their Capo

There’s still time to sign up for the NorCal PHRF/IMS Series, a quick three race

26 Unity lately and have been having a ball. Figuring other couples might likewise enjoy

Isaacks won the national award over 115

series in the ocean beginning August 20. The

this aspect of the sport, they’re now trying to

other sailors, all of whom were nominated by

Fraze and his wife

Hub Isaacks,

85-year-old

gentleman from Fort Worth, Texas, earned the honor.

series actually was to have included four

put together a schedule of J&J racing for

their yacht clubs for making “significant con¬

races, but the first one, the Silver Eagle,

next year. Roger and Lenore Heath, who

tributions to the quality of the sport.” Five

turned out to be a windless bust. “The pur¬

sail their Moore 24 Sparrowhawk, and Peter

people

pose of the series is to introduce people to

Hogg and

Shama Kota,

among the nominees. We salute the follow¬

IMS

catamaran

Tainui,

(the

International

Measurement

System) by having some short ocean races in nice

weather,”

said IMS

measurer

Dick

are

who have the

also

behind

from

Northern

California

were

the

ing sailors (listed alphabetically by club) for

“We’ll probably do a race this fall —

making the 1988 USYRU Sportsmanship Honor Roll:

conspiracy.

Horn. Races will be scored under both the

maybe the Half Moon Bay Race — as part of

PHRF and IMS rules so comparisons can be

the

made. The starts will be in conjunction will

doublehanded division,” said Bud. “We’re

OYRA, but the courses will be shorter, says

really flexible, and would like to get input

Eagle Lake SA, Susanville, Ken Kane; Lakeport YC, Lakeport, Bob and Vera Hunt; North Point YC, San Francisco, Pierre Tschamper; San Leandro YC, San

Horn. IMS is slowly gaining momentum:

from other interested couples.” Fraze can be

Leandro, George Cummings.

about 18 boats have been measured now.

reached at (415) 294-2653 (days) and (415)

Singlehanded

Sailing

Society’s

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CRUISING

he day we decided to go knocking on hulls in the Delta, it was 103 degrees

in San Francisco. That’s the hottest it’s been in the City since they started keeping records in 1849 during the Gold Rush. It was at least that temperature up Delta way. So hot that we must have drunk a cou¬ ple gallons of bottled water, soft drinks and a

John Hayward

Mokelumne — Freeport 41 Lost Slough Homeport: Lost Slough

brew or two, and didn’t wizz the whole day.

John has lived aboard Mokelumne for

We sweated it out. The water was cool,

many years. Up until a few years ago, he

though, and swimming in it every so often

commuted to the boat from his dentistry

kept the sunstroke at bay. We ran into lots of nice folks that hot July

practice in Martinez. Now retired, John calls

day (where do you think we got the drinks?),

small dock and tiny “house” ashore for

which of course is characteristic of the Delta.

guests. Mokelumne just returned a couple months

Being

patient

and

friendly

with

total

strangers who disturb your reverie with cub

Lost Slough home. In fact, he’s even built a

reporter questions is part of being in Delta

ago from a winter cruise to Mexico — they went as far south as Zihuatinejo — but John

mode.

says that if you asked him to compare the

Other

“symptoms”

are

acUte

appreciation of the warm weather, the cool water and the natural wonders of this unique vacation spot. Here’s what a few folks had

two, he’d pick the Delta anytime. “It’s just

comfortable

' \ here

than

there,” he says.

to say.

Pegasus — Spaulding 33 Lost Slough (“Sailboat Heaven”) Homeport: San Francisco clear the mast to get in here. Now almost all

Mike and Ruth first came to the Delta in

“There are many more speedboats now,”

1951 in their Junior Clipper. They’ve been

says Mike. “In fact, because of wakes, only

regulars

few

about 10 percent of this island is left from

the trees are gone.” Still, they wouldn’t

TransPac years”) since 1963, the year they

how it used to be. The wakes undercut the

anywhere else. “It’s still a beautiful environ¬

launched

(“with

the

exception

think

going

33,

banks and these islands are just washing

ment — and a great getaway from the City,”

Pegasus. Things have changed quite a bit

away. It used to be you had to maneuver a

says Ruth.

since those days.

sailboat under a huge canopy of trees to

their

homebuilt Spaulding

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THE DELTA

SMI

1■ (I to r) Steve LaViolett, Susan Grant and Mike Williams Concubine — Coronado 30 Rio Vista Homeport: East Bay

meet him there. Steve had a cast on his foot, but Mike and Susan were looking forward to trying out the new windsurfer lashed to the lifelines. Potato

“We had a terrific sail up here,” says Mike

What’s the appeal of the Delta? “Delta

9:30 in the morning and flew the chute all

mode,” says Steve. “It’s a time warp,” says

the way. We got in about 3:00.” Mike has been bringing the boat up for five

it’s too hot to care,” says Mike.

or six years now, and usually has friends along to crew. The wife and kids don’t par¬ ticularly like sailing, so they drive up and

Paul Lundmark (on sailboard) and friends Tangarora — Dreadnaught 32 The Meadows Homeport: Jack London Square “We’re up for a week-and-a-half. This is a great place to stay. A little more crowded than it used to be, but still great. “Why are you asking all these questions? Are you the Coast Guard or something?”

page I 73

Slough was the intended test ground.

Williams, owner of Concubine. “We left at

Susan. “You don’t have anything to do and

CRUISING

Reed and Barbara Sorenson Timeless — Gulfstar 39.9 Rio Vista Homeport: Alameda “We’re taking part in three different cruises this

week,”

says

Reed.

“One

with

the

Oakland Power Squadron, one with the Stockton Sailing Club and one with our own club, the Dos Rios YC. From here we’ll be heading up to Islands Marina and Devils Island.” For the last four or five years, the Soren¬ sons have come up to the Delta in the middle of June, and commute back and forth from their jobs to the boat. Normally, they bring Timeless

back

home

Labor

Day

Weekend. This

year

different,

most

notably

because they’re aboard a different Timeless. Their latest boat to carry the name is a Gulfstar they bought in June. The increased space and amenities have already spoiled them for the older boat. “You know anybody who wants to buy a good used 33-footer?” says Barbara.

Joe and Denise Devine Begum — Irwin 37 Potato Slough Homeport: San Rafael “We keep the boat up here about three months a year,” says Joe

(with beard).

“We’ve been doing it since our daughters were little kids. Now they have kids of their own up here.” “Yes,” says Denise, “That’s my son Gar¬ rett (foot on rail) and his friend Spencer over there trying to waterski. My sister Jackie would be here right now, too, except that she’s busy having a baby of her own.” Joe is a San Francisco Bar Pilot who works a week, then spends a week on the Delta. “I’m going to retire soon, though, so I’ll get to come up all the time,” he smiles.

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THE DELTA

(I to r) John, Shelly and Dave unnamed runabout One the Mokelumne Homeport: Walnut Creek “Someone gave us this boat. This is the first time we’ve had it out, and we found out that when the fuel gauge reads 1/4, you’re out of gas. to “Thanks for the tow.”

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This month we have reports on the real geological history of Caleta Partida; a warning to cruisers on the situation in Panama; tips on Raratonga and Pago Pago; ap invitation to stop by the Costa Rica Yacht Club; reflections on cruising the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Societies; a recommendation for the Hotel Punta Chivato in Punta Santa Ines, Baja; information on Fiji; and the usual Cruise Notes.

Figuring Caleta Partida Connemara — Yankee 30 Tom Peargin (Bakersfield) My wife and I recently returned from a year-long cruise of the coast of California, mainland Mexico, and the southern Sea of Cortez. As a geologist, I looked forward to visiting the anchorage at Caleta Partida, sight of Sea of Cortez Sail Week, which had been described in Charlie’s Charts and Latitude 38 as a sunken volcanic crater. A geologist friend and I spent a couple of days scrambling'over the countryside of islas Espiritu Santo and Partida, and we have some bad news for Latitude and Charlie. Although both islands are comprised of thick layers of volcanic ash called tuff, none of the island’s anchorages are volcanic craters. A quick literature search at UC Berkeley (those guys pick all the neat places to study), revealed that the volanic rocks of the islands are part of the Comondu Formation,

Geologist Tom Peargin regarding Caleta Partida.

shattered our illusions

radiometrically dated at between 17 to 21 million years old. Seventeen million years is too long for even the largest of volcanic

craters to exist as a clearly recognizable landform without being eroded away or renewing its shape with new eruptions. Although Caleta Partida is n<ot a volcanic crater, islas Partida and Espiritu Santo do have an interesting geological history. The islands are part of the larger fault block which has been uplifted relative to Batjia'de La Paz to the west and the Gulf of California'to the east. The faulting is related to movement along the San Andreas and associated fault systems, which have moved coastal Califor¬ nia and the Baja peninsula slowly northwest¬ ward relative to the North American conti¬ nent. The once flat-lying rocks of the island block have been tilted slightly westward dur¬ ing the uplift, forming steep cliffs on the eastern side of the islands, and gentler western slopes. During the Pleistocene ice ages, \yhen much of the earth’s fresh water was trapped in continental ice sheets and sea levels were correspondingly lower, numerous canyons were eroded into the western slopes of the island block. Two of the northern canyons were eroded so deeply that they cut com¬ pletely through the island, creating notches in the sheer eastern cliffs. With the rising of sea levels of the present warm interglacial period, the canyons were flooded by the sea from west to east. Sandy lagoons with crescent-shaped western shores formed at the shallow eastern end of the flooded canyons. Caleta Partida, which is the southernmost of the two canyons, has a rounded eastern shore, looming volcanic cliffs to the north and south, and a narrow western entrance, which gives the anchorage a circular, crater¬ like feel from the inside, as if one were at the bottom of a bowl made of rock. Caleta Grande, which is the northernmost canyon, is much more elongated and does not have the look of a crater. The origin of both anchorages is more apparent to boats using Caleta Grande. Caleta Partida is a great place and Sea of Cortez Sail Week was a blast. Although 1 only competed in the Wednesday PHRF race (got second place!), there were so many DNF’s on the other two light air days that we

pulled a fifth for the whole series! We were very pleased with the sailing per¬ formance of our modified Yankee 30 racer/cruiser, and having both an autopilot for downwind and a vane for upwind meant we rarely had to touch the tiller on passages. The boat could be tacked and hove to under main alone by vane, allowing both of us to work together on the foredeck during headsail changes. A simple downhaul line attached to the uppermost hank of the jib and led through blocks to the maststep meant nobody needed to go forward of the mast to get the headsail on deck during a drop. We became better sailors through the course of our cruise, in part because we chose to sail as much as possible. We were a bit disillusioned by the number of cruisers who chose to motor virtually everywhere, especially upwind, in conditions that often page 176

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Heartbeat — Nautical 46 Capt. Mickey “C” (Hanalei Bay, Kauai) I just received the July issue via my girlfriend and saw my letter dated May of this year. Unfortunately, I cannot satisfy all of the questions asked by “inquiring minds”. If I did, I would put my company, Bluewater Express, and several friends in the United States and Panamanian goverments in a very bad position. It’s a terrific story, if only it could be told in complete detail! I

will,

however,

try

diplomatically

answer as many of the questions as I can without jeopardizing included.

anyone

—

myself

After your telephone conversation with Mike Starbuck and his return to Panama, things changed rapidly. When I saw him, he was very frightened, as the rest of us were, by the desperate situation. I can’t go into it too deeply, however. With regard to my

own

problems in

Panama, I was delivering a Nautical 46 cut¬ ter from the West Indies to Long Beach for the owner, Jack Dexter, a retired Lt. Com¬ mander in the Navy. We arrived in Panama during the wee hours of March 14th amidst gunfire and tear gas. We stayed on the hook until first light and then proceeded to the dock of the Panama YC at Cristobal. I was taken, with escort, through Immigration as a courtesy

the

Captain

the

Port.

Panamanian soldiers armed to the teeth with would have made sailing faster and easier on

Caleta Pardda may not be a volcanic crater, but it's

Soviet arms, grenades and tear gas were

themselves and their boats. With only a 10

still one of the spiritual centers of the universe.

literally everywhere. With their fingers on the triggers, they blocked all streets and seem¬

horsepower diesel, efficient motoring was only possible for us in calm conditions, and

tinued to progress in conditions that would

we often longed for a more powerful engine

have

when a left-over sea was running.

Still,

made motorsailing impossible even

with the most powerful engine.

ingly kept coming out of the woodwork. The tension was very high since that was the day Noriega declared martial law and

although we had no choice, the feeling of

Lest my cruising friends think I’m becom¬

had taken over the country. An 8:00 p.m. to

accomplishment that we experienced after

ing a hairy-chested macho sailing jerk (with

8:00 a.m. curfew was enforced during which

sailing a long upwind passage compensated

creeping Pardy-ism), let me say that it was a

all power was turned off. Concrete was

for the lost time and discomfort. Practice changing sails and driving the

relief to be able to motor the final 200 miles to San Diego in nearly flat calm conditions.

«poured in front of the doorways to banks,

boat to windward paid off for my crew and I

We’d been beating enough by then!

prohibiting entry. All businesses were closed, so there was no food, fuel or money.

My future ideal cruising boat will be bigger,

I returned to the yacht club and was told

tions north of Cedros Island. Hove to for

more comfortable, having a roller furling cut¬

not to leave the grounds as it was a “safe

seven hours, we were finally able to sail into

ter rig, and a powerful engine. But I’ll still

zone”. During this time all U.S. military per¬

when we were caught in force eight condi¬

Punta San Carlos anchorage under storm jib

resist turning the engine on until the last

sonnel were confined to our bases and

and double-reefed main. Although this was

minute because, for me, sailing remains a big

Operation Charlie was in effect. Late in the

my first experience in such strong winds and

part of what cruising is all about. — tom peargin 6/20/88

afternoon

rough seas, 1 knew what to expect from my

Panamian Problems /

page 177

saw

American

helicopters

figured it was a good sign.

boat after hundreds of hours of sailing her to weather. We sustained no damage and con¬

dropping troops into the Canal Zone; we I spent the early evening in the Yacht Club

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with others drinking massive amounts of rum

Panama. But he’d left the Yacht Club under

and

was

U.S. escort the day we arrived to see if he

available. We watched the television news as

could get food and money at the U.S. Navy

we drank. It was all Panaminian controlled

base in Panama City. We never saw him

as Noriega had blocked out the American

again. When he saw the situation upon his

channel. Every half hour they would show film clips of U.S. military beating Panama¬

return, he got the U.S. military to help him

nian students during the 1978 burning of an

Thus his crew, including me the captain, were left stranded and to fend for ourselves.

Panamanian

beer.

food

American flag by leftists. The commentary

get his boat back and sail for the Caribbean.

called on the people to oust all Americans

With me in jail and the boat gone, the rest

from Panama in order to secure an indepen¬

of the crew freaked out. They immediately

dent future from “the American dogs”. .Then

boarded

there was a news flash of four American

Jamaica. Of the other captain^ incarcerated

students — one of them a woman — being

with me, three were given their boats back

another

boat

and

headed

for

while the other three of us were left hanging

arrested and accused of being spies! By this time we — which included eight

out to dry. The Captain of the Port ordered

a German

us to stay away from the Yacht Club because

crew, three Italians, my German and West

‘we had no business there’. So we headed

Indian crew, as well as some Brits and Mex¬

for the Hotel Washington in Colon. It turned

icans

Perhaps

out not to be such a good idea as Noriega

recklessly, we were loudly discussing our

had turned it into his military headquarters.

Americans,

—

a French couple,

were

all

shit-faced.

feelings about Noriega and the whole situa¬

Once again our passports were taken and

tion when suddenly a bunch of soldiers

we were confined to the hotel. From there

charged in! Everyone was ordered against

we contacted the Underground.

Out of

the wall and we were questioned individu¬

necessity, my story now becomes sketdhy. I

ally. We eight Americans were taken to a

can only say that a bunch of people were

prison in Colon where our passports were

involved,

confiscated and we were held there for three

same situation and a dual citizenship judge.

days for conspiracy to overthrow the govern¬

There were phony papers, ‘marriages’ to

$120. Then I stumbled into a great American

ment. In truth, we’d only been guilty of

Columbian

and

bar in San Jose called Nashville South. This

opening our big mouths! While in prison I observed the execution

private plane flights to Costa Rica. A real

is a refuge for American criminals on the

drama.

lam, CIA people, tourists, and various peo¬

of American sympathizers. While I was not

including other skippers in the

and

Peruvian

For future reference,

women,

everybody might

for the room and soon I was down to my last

ple scheming devious ways to make money.

beaten, I was shoved, poked and intimi¬

want to note that the on/y U.S. citizens given

I found a friend there who let me stay in a

dated. I met executives from Coca Cola and IBM as well as other American businessmen

protection in Panama were military and their

charming place

families. From my hotel window I observed

Escayce

who had their companies taken from them.

children being shot to death in the streets

unreadable) Rio Blanco, which is owned by

(Editor’s

the

mountains called

note:

spelling

is.

U.S.

after curfew for trying to find scraps of food

an Englishman and his wife. It was safe

helicopters had been evacuating U.S. Canal

in the trash. (The soldiers ate well!) I saw

there, and I felt the best I had in a long time.

workers because Noriega had closed the

Cuban ships and Cuban troops unloading

But because the Consul refused to help

Canal. Upon being released from prison, we went

arms in Colon/Cristobal. As innocent peo¬

me, I was still an illegal in Costa Rica. If you

ple were being driven into submission the

have the money to grease the palms of the

to Immigration and were told that we’d have

U.S. just sat on its ass.

U.S. employees at the embassy, you’ll be

Canal

worker

told

that

to buy back our passports because the Im¬

Once in Costa Rica, I immediately went to

taken care of. But if you don’t, these tax¬

migration people hadn’t been paid in three

the U.S. Consul for help and sanctuary. At

payer supported employees don’t give a shit

weeks! The only government employees

this time I was down to about $700. They

about you.

who were being paid were the soldiers. Pay¬

told me not to discuss Panama with anyone

Anyway, Rio Blanco was great, with wild

ing $1,500 for my passport, I returned to the

and that I should check in at a particular

fruit, scarlet parrots in the trees, monkeys,

yacht club to find Heartbeat gone!

hotel

where

they

would

pick

the

I was told that soldiers had confiscated the

$65/night tab. They also told me they’d take

good food, and safety. It was there that I met another friend. It turns out that Costa

vessel and had stripped her of electronics,

care of me getting back to the States. This

Rica is loaded with CIA involved in all kinds

food and personal belongings. Dexter, the

was right at the beginning of Easter Week in

of covert operations. For example, the Army

ex-military owner of the boat had been along

Costa Rica, during which everything closes

Corps of Engineers has been here two years

with us because his navy contacts had ap¬

down.

building a dry canal along the Nicaraguan

prised him of the deteriorating situation in

The U.S. Consul lied to me about paying

border. And Limon is full of U.S. military. It page I 78

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even worse! So, Don, I think you were just lucky. If you plan to continue being as foolhardy as you have been, hang on tight to that Irish passport. In conclusion, I’d like sailors to know that unless they are military or ex-military with a lot of drag, you are on your own. As for me, I wouldn’t have it any other way. A love of the sea, boats and adventure — it’s great to be free! There’s no place like home, but no greater place than the sea and the freedom to roam her. P.S. I’ve unsuccessfully tried to contact Jack Dexter, owner of Heartbeat, but his Long Beach phone has been disconnected and none of my friends in the Caribbean have seen the boat. My crew and I would like to talk to Jack, as it sure seems like he aban¬ doned us to a bad situation in Panama. And an ex-Navy man to boot! Thanks a lot, Jack. It’s still a small ocean, and we’ll meet up somewhere. — capt. mickey “c” 7/8/88 Mickey — Nick Coates, who cruises on the Peterson 44, Expectation, reports that seems that the U.S.

doesn’t care about

Panama because their Canal is too expen¬

Panama? Costa Rica? No, just some folks enjoying a cruise to Petaluma.

sive to maintain and needs extensive repairs. I had been in Costa Rica for five weeks

to 15 years for drug smuggling. Nick reports umbia Sabre. Who is he kidding? He might

before I met my friend. But he waves a

have made it safely into Nicaragua, but he

powerful wand, and just four days after

did so with an Irish passport and a boat too

meeting him I was back in the United States.

small to smuggle arms or gems. He has a lot

1 wish I could say more about the whole

of balls making that trek, especially in such a

incident, but if I did heads would roll. All I

small boat. I’m sure the locals think he’s loco.

can say is that Panama is no place for a sailor

Jack Reed, who lived next to Mike Starbuck on Playa Blanca, was sentenced in mid-July

But I

met some

Mexicans in

Central

'that his friend Mike Starbuck remains in Panama “by choice”

Yankee Lady — Traveler 32 Bob Hodierne Pago Pago (San Francisco)

and that I’m glad to be back in the United

America who weren’t so lucky. They were

So you were turned on to sailing by the

States and reunited with the love of my

delivering a U.S. documented 46-ft power¬

television show Adventures in Paradise and

heart, Jane, who just returned from the

boat from Texas to Acapulco for the owner.

wanted to grow up just like Gardner McKay,

Virgin Islands. We’d missed each other in

Because of bad weather they slipped behind

huh? Well, as it turns out it’s not too late.

Panama by just hours. She, too, had quite a

the Swan Islands for cover. The Hondurans

You can still support yourself out here doing

time, being confined to her boat in Balboa

picked them up on radar and made contact.

inter-island trading. Of course, it’s not the

and

Upon learning the captain and crew were

*same as cruising. It’s what’s known as work.

being

unable

get fuel

or food.

Although she got out in the nick of time,

Mexicans who spoke perfect espanol, they

there were times when she wondered if she

granted

would see another manana.

them

permission

stay.

Right now, for instance, the Cook Island government is in a jam keeping its northern

Nonetheless, at first light they came out to

group

ketch,

check.

name and

Palmerston) supplied. They’ve got one small

Amazing Grace, ready to do the same trip in

homeport, things changed. They seized the

freighter running the circuit but it’s in such

the fall. Hopefully the Canal will be passable;

boat and held the crew, binding and blind¬

poor repair the anchor windlass does not

if not perhaps we’ll have a wild attempt at

folding them for seven days until they were

work. Imagine that! They’ve also chartered a

Cape Horn. In closing, I’d like to say a few words to

convinced they weren’t running drugs or

95-ft English ketch to run supplies and

guns. Ultimately they released them with no

passengers. But the ketch is in it for only six

Presently

I’m

getting

40-ft

Seeing

the

American

(Penrhyn,

Manihiki,

Suvarov and

Don Cuddy who wrote a Changes about sail¬

money, food or clothes and just enough fuel

months, and if the freighter doesn’t sink first

ing to war-torn Central America in his Col-

to reach Panama — where the situation was

it’s going to be condemned.

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v So there you are; get yourself a big sturdy

Next tip for playing Gardner

McKay.

boat and come play Gardner McKay. The government in Raratonga will welcome you

Study up on pearls before you leave home.

with open arms. (See Mr. Man in the Out

price you might get selling them. The people

ing to the generator while you wait. — bob hodierne

Find out what’s good, what’s bad and what

The Costa Rica YC Welcomes You (Puntarenas, Costa Rica)

Islands Department.) But as 1 said, it ain’t

on Penrhyn love to trade just about anything

cruising. I watched the ketch Evohoe leave

you have for pearls. So bring along a lot of

The Costa Rica YC would like to take this

Raratonga when it was blowing a gale and

country music cassettes, pocket calculators,

opportunity to welcome all cruising sailors

the weather office described the seas as

some inexpensive tape players, big fishing

“rough to very rough.” I was going to leave

lures, and become a big-time pearl trader.

who are members of other yacht clubs to use our facilities and services while in Costa Rica.

that day, too, but being a cruiser I looked at

For that matter, you can dive for them

We can offer the following: 24-hour guard

But,

service, dinghy service to and from moored

Euohoe gave all the passengers sea sick pills

hey, we can all free-dive to 9Qlfeet, right? Now about Pago. Much has been Witten

pier, a hotel and restaurant, a swimming

and left anyway. So much for the romance

about how dirty and smelly the harbor is. It is

pool, laundry service, fuel and fresh water at

those seas, made another cup of coffee and curled up with a book. My friends on

yourself. No SCUBA gear allowed.

boats, safe dinghy docking at our private

all true. The water is the color of two-day-old

the

showers, a 20 ton Travel-Lift, shop facilities

I’d skip Raratonga entirely. The people there

coffee. The tuna plants have put me off canned tuna the rest of my life. And the

are great, you can get lots of repairs done,

power generating station,

food seems cheap after French Polynesia

niently to the

mechanics and carpenters. Current fees are $3.05 U.S. per month for

and the island is beautiful. But the harbor

rather like a 747 taxing down the runway.

a mooring buoy or $5.91 U.S. per month for

sucks. It’s small, dirty, and wide open to any

But, things are cheap here. Beer is $1.25 in

the use of two mooring buoys. In and out

wind that has north in its name. And when

bars, $4.50 a six pack in the stores — the

with the Travel-Lift is $1.18 U.S. per foot.

any north wind blows, the harbor becomes a

Drydocking is $9.85 U.S. per day. Free with

nightmare. In addition, when the freighters

cheapest I’ve seen since America. There are cheap laundromats and diesel is only 90

come they often make you leave the harbor

cents a gallon (it was 90 centers a liter in

and from shore, use of the pier, fresh water

of the seas. On the other hand, if you’re just cruising,

yacht

located conve¬

anchorage,

sounds

mail

service,

bathrooms

and

with an air compressor and recommended

moorage and drydocking is dinghy service to at the pier, use of bathrooms and showers,

so the freighter can manuever (I told you it was small). They keep trying to dredge out a yacht basin and every year the hurricanes fill

pier,

and mail pick-up. Follow the dots to number 9, the Costa Rica YC.

The Costa Rica YC is located inside the

6. Pass market 1, Round Point at Buoy 2. Best check in anchorage 7. Follow coast on port 8. Moored boats Coast Guard Port Captain and pier 9. Costa Rica Yacht Club 10. Mangrove swamp 5. Central market

it back in. So skip Rara and visit Penrhyn

French Polynesia). There are virtually no

estuary of the port of Puntarenas in the Gulf

and Suvarov (I know it’s not a port of entry

yacht supplies here: no line, no shackles, no

of Nicoya on the Pacific side. The anchorage

and they know it’s not a port of entry but no

chain. If you want that stuff you have it

is extremely safe, the only waves being the

one makes a big deal out of it. If they do, just

shipped in from the States. Postage here is

ones made by dinghies. We will be very glad

tell them your engine or mate was acting

the same as it is in the States, so it won’t

to guide any visiting yacht up the estuary to

up).

break you. You’ll just slowly go crazy listen-

the club. We monitor VHF channels 6 and

. - -

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COURTESY ROBERT HODIERNE

from

0700 to

1700

every

day but

Here’s why: hamburgers are $7, beers are

The harbor at Raratonga, we think.

Wednesdays.

$4 and a dozen eggs go for $3.

We have a big group of enthusiastic sailors here and organize several regattas a year. The big event is the Costa Rica YC Regatta

s' We spent three weeks in Huahine and and sail in general. The disadvantages were that our tankage

in which we compete for a bronze trophy

was so limited. We only carry 40 gallons of

sculpted by a local artist. Participation by

fuel and 80 gallons of water.

owners of visiting monohulls is encouraged. The event is held in October. Our goal is to promote sailing in Costa Rica and all cruisers are welcome. So please,

Having cruised the Marquesas, Tuamotus and

Societies,

the

following

are

our

I. Places s' By leaving Mexico early, the first part of March, the anchorages in the Marquesas

at Instalaciones en el Estero, Puntarenas,

were less crowded than later on.

P.S. Carmen and Alex from Alaskan —

were Fatu Hiva and Oa Pou. Both have

president, costa rica yacht club

small villages, friendly people and lots of fresh fruit. Surfing t-shirts, reggae and coun¬

final

dance

competitions

II. Food People ask what we wish we’d brought salami, powdered eggs, alcohol, peanut but¬ ,Soups and seeds for sprouting. Also Combat for the cockroaches. III. Practicalities is The helpful cruising guides are Charlies

try and western tapes, and perfume were

Charts and Marcia Davok’s Cruising Guide

good trading items. You can also purchase

to Tahiti. s’ Fuel was available in the Marquesas at

tapa cloth and wood carvings on these

Update On The South Pacific Centolla — Sceptre 36 Arne & Elaine Abrams (Seattle)

the

ter, popcorn, lemon-lime Tang, Cup ’O

overnight sail to Fatu Hiva.

— rodrigo j. fernandez

Readers — Can anyone give us a review

have

more of. How about canned chicken meat,

s' If you land in Atuona, Hiva Oa is an s’ Our favorite islands in the Marquesas

of the Costa Rica Yacht Club?

friendly and made gifts of fresh fruit. s’ Our next stop was Bora Bora where leading up to Fete in Papeete.

you need further information, please write us

where are you?

We explored the ruins, rented bicycles and hitch-hiked around. The people were very

they

recommendations:

if you’re sailing in the area, please drop in. If

Costa Rica, Central America.

fell in love with the island. It has very little tourism and the locals grow lots of produce.

islands. s’ In

Maurice’s Store in Taiohae Bay, Nuka Hiva. the

Tuamotus

recommend

is Our five gallon propane tank lasted 2.5

choosing a few atolls and spending more

months until Papeete,

time getting to know the people.

where no special

Naturally the following cruising informa¬ tion is biased by our experiences, but we

s’ We chose Ahe and met Hiti, Helene

fittings were required. s’ Good weather reports are available on

and their family. Hiti took us snorkeling in

14318 at 040t) GMT. Arnold is the operator.

hope they will help all our friends in Mexico

the lagoon; it’s a good idea to go with a local

s' The

French

officials

were

helpful;

and the States who are getting ready to cross

because of the sharks! We learned to make

the pond next year. We were a little concerned taking our

aggressive hand splashes to scare off black

many spoke English. s' The required bond was the equivalent

tipped reef sharks, but were chased into a

of a plane ticket to Hawaii. This is always

racer/cruiser on the crossing instead of a

cave by a large grey shark. Good thing Hiti

subject to change, however.

traditional crufsing boat. But we found our

was nearby. The locals also taught us which

boat to have the following advantages:

fish were edible and how to make poisson

^ A fast passage of 19.5 days from Las Hadas to Hiva Oa. s' The ability to sail in light winds instead of using expensive fuel. Being a fun boat to surf down waves page 181

cru

(raw fish)

marinated in lemon juice,

first

stop

the

Societies

people

make

our

special

memories. We made many friends just by extending a little courtesy.

coconut cream, garlic and grated papaya. s’ The

III. People The local

s' Treat

locals

real

people.

For

Papeete. It’s a good place to fix the boat and

instance, invite them out to your boat for

buy a few items, but the money goes fast.

cocktails or dinner. You’ll find they are

j"St

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X. as curious about you as you are about them. Many times locals took us diving, gave us fruit or invited us into their homes. ts Try to speak French or Tahitian. Even learning to say ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ is appreciated. Surprisingly, many Polynesians speak Spanish. ^ Bring pictures of your hometown. It’s hard to explain things like cities, freeways and snow to people who’ve never seen them. v* Don’t always follow the rest of- the cruisers. Think for yourself. We found that if you’re the only boat in the anchorage, you’ll meet more villagers. ^ There is a balance between other cruisers and villagers. We have met sailors from all over the world and had some great potlucks. We hope to see many of cruising friends down the road. We have loved the South

Don’t forget to bring pictures of your house and your hometown.

Pacific so far and are excited to see Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. P.S. Thanks for Changes, it gave us some good information when we were planning our cruise. — arne & elaine 7/13/88

Muirgheal — N/A Susan & Bit Larssen Hotel Punta Chivato Punta Santa Ines, Baja Recently we staggered out from the stiffling heat of Santispac/Bahia Concepcion in¬ to the seemingly cool by comparison Sea of Cortez, Our destination wa$ north, but primarily anywhere away from the suf¬ focating heat. It’s amazing the temperature difference in Bahia Concepcion to that of the surrounding area. The major saving grace of Santispac was the fabulous diving ahd the abundance of sand scallops and clams. It wasn’t a question of what to eat but how to cook it differently. Sailing north past Mulege, we entered Bahia Santa Ines with the intention of check¬ ing out the “great shelling beach”. The beach proved to be abundant in shells, but not in great variety. However, as a new recruit to the profession of shell collecting, I came away very content with my cache. Traveling in company with Testa Dura and Moondancer, and in close pursuit of Sirius, Tortuga, Wanderer, and Akauit, we decided to anchor for the night under the lights of the Hotel Punta Chivato. After motoring ashore, we ascended the steep steps leading up to the hotel. What a beautiful sight awaited us! A crystal clear swimming pool, lounge chairs and all the paraphernalia of a great resort. We, of course, headed directly to the bar. There on the cliff, under the shade of a palm tree with grass under our feet, I sipped and my husband gulped our Cubra Libras. Exploring the hotel grounds, we found the lobby and to my delight a litter of adorable grey fluffy kittens, sans tails. The kittens were not manx as a suspected, but sired by a bob¬ cat — so I found out as I spoke with Billie Brush, the hotel’s receptionist. I inquired at that time about the possibility of our using the hotel pool, explaining that we were on the yacht that just anchored. Billie pondered my question for a brief moment and then matter-of-factly replied, “I don’t see any reason why not.” At that moment Moondancer strolled up and I quickly added that there were three yachts and six of us. We were assured that we were all welcome to not only use the pool but all the hotel facilities! And, “By the way, there’s a Lakers’ game on now and 50-cent hotdogs.” Anyone would have thought we hadn’t

eaten in a week if they had watched us con¬ sume hot dogs with all the trimmings. It was wonderful! While later speaking with the hotel pro¬ prietor, Bill Alvarado, I mentioned Latitude and asked his permission to tell your readers about the generous hospitality we received at the newly opened hotel. Permission was not only granted, but also encouraged! I can comfortably now recommend not only the lovely Bahia Santa Ines with its shell beaches, but the beautiful Hotel Punta Chivato. Bill Alvarado extends a welcome to all yachties and cruisers to enjoy the pool and the other facilities. The facilities consist of a full bar, satellite dish television, and a dining room (inside and terrace) serving three meals each day. In the main lobby is a book exchange with a gift shop next door. Outside the immediate grounds of the hotel is their boat launch ramp. This ramp, located just west of the hotel, can be used at no charge, unless assistance is required. And at the time of this writing, that was quoted as page 182

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approximately $10. Located at the boat ramp is the hotel’s fish cleaning area where good scraps can be i picked up for bait or to feed your starving cat. This will vary, of course, on the quantity and catch of the day. At the fish cleaning area is a fresh water spigot which Bill says is good drinking water used by the hotel and the local residences. Which of course means Jerry Jug time again, but that’s better than a f 30-mile round-trip into Mulege from Santispac for water or paying 10 cents a gallon in 1 Bahia Conception. For some of you into moving at a faster pace, there is also a small plane runway for use at no charge. We had the pleasure of meeting two couples from the San Diego area who just “popped” down for the weekend. We spent our first of three eve¬ nings sharing jokes and stories of cruising life and flying life. Unfortunately for us, their stay ended the next morning, but to our thrill we got a proper buzzing and a good ole wing waving on their way out. page 183

Santispac features an abundance of shellfish and Winnebagos.

Late that afternoon we contemplated that here we are and they were probably back at their homes in San Diego getting ready for their meetings and jobs. 1 continued stuffing shells in my bag as we strolled along the beach enjoying the cool breeze and setting sun. “Well, dear, what shall it be for dinner tonight? Clams, scallops, fish?” Ahh, it’s a great life, if you can stand it. P.S. As a matter of courtesy and respect I think it would be recommendable that anyone partaking of the hotel’s facilities, at the very least, check in with Bill or Billie. — susan mead larssen 6/20/88 Foxy Lady II Brian, Jan & Suva, Fiji (Waikiki YC, Having spent

— Ericson 32 Brian Jr (12) Caldwell Honolulu) the last eight months in

Fijian waters carefully monitoring the weather, we apparently have lucked out as there were no hurricanes in Fiji this season! Being the only cruising boat to spend the hurricane season on the west side of Viti Levu was an interesting experience. We cruised the Mamanuca Group, making Musket Cove on Malolo Lailai our homeport for the season. For safety, we always stayed within a day’s sail of our hurricane hole. There are two hurricane holes on the west side of Viti Levu, both in mangrove swamps. The first is just north of the city of Lautoka and has been dredged to 10 feet at low tide. It’s easy to get into under most conditions, but gets very crowded with commercial and fishing boat traffic. Our hole was in a small offshoot of the Nadi River. Access is at high tide only, and then the water is less than six feet going over the entrance bar. The small branch of the river isn’t marked, so we spent many hours sounding the entrance and marking our spot in the mangroves. Once in, it’s an excellent ‘hole’ with large mangroves on all sides, no current run-off, and a barrier of nearly a half mile from the open sea. This was our third year in the cyclone belt and we felt more comfortable here than we did in Moorea or Tonga. ' Good weather reports are readily available on a timely basis in the southwest Pacific. The developing lows are identified and tracked early, and ample warning is given long before cyclone force winds develop. Honolulu, Nadi, WWV and the various ham nets do a great job. Since we were the only cruising yacht to spend the season on the west side of Viti Levu, we had a lot of fun and quickly began to feel like part of the community. It seemed like everyone* in Lautoka, Nadi and the Mamanuca’s knew us by our first names. As Tor Musket Cove, it was a great spot for our adopted homeport because it featured the following: Fresh produce flown in daily. is Prompt mail service through Dick’s Place, the Musket Cove YC. s Just two hours from our hurricane hole. v* Wonderfully warm people and fan¬ tastic fishing. s A protected anchorage in everything but hurricane force winds.

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We returned to Suva in mid-March to haul our boat. The three-day haulout cost less than $100 U.S. The repair work was han¬ dled through Jeff Norton of Yacht Help, and he greatly simplified getting things done in a timely manner. Since my ‘fixing’ talents are limited to reaching into my pocketbook to pay for the work, Yacht Help really came through by setting up the following repairs: Hauling the boat, painting the bottom, and cleaning and waxing the topsides. ^ Reworking the refrigeration system — after nine years of trouble-free service. Obtaining new curtains. ts Getting a new woven floor mat for the cabin sole. Having all interior cushions steam cleaned. Getting the head gasket replaced. After six months in Fiji, our visitor’s visa expired. We applied for and received tem¬ porary residency (non-working) visas for an additional year. Proof of self-support, physi¬ cian’s reports and many forms did the job. It was a lot easier and less costly than flying out of the country to renew the six month visitor’s visa. Jan & Brian Jr. are finishing up their third year of the Calvert School’s correspondence program and have found it far superior to anything Brian Jr. received in the past. We feel it’s comparable to an education available at a private school with high standards. Needless to say, we recommend it highly. As usual, our current plans are somewhat up in the air. We will either spend another year in Fiji or head on west to Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Australia. All we know is that it won’t be south of latitude 25! — brian, jan, b.j., & ‘coup’ the cat (6/26/88) Folks — Thanks for the fine report. Because such boats are very reasonably priced, many of our readers are interested in how your Ericson 32 rates as a South Pacific cruising boat. Is it structurally sound, have you made a lot of modifications, is there enough room for a family of three? If you get the time, we’d love to hear your thoughts regarding these matters.

Cruise Notes In June, Dana Point’s Don Mardon crewed on one of the fastest deliveries he’s

ever done from Mexico. Skippered by Mike Clark, and with two other crew besides Don, the Mason 64 Jadeante left Cabo at 4 p.m. on the 13th and pulled into San Diego at 4:30 on the 17th. That’s averaging 8.3 knots over the ground. Not too shabby. The iron wind — a 240-horse Detroit turbo diesel —' did all the work. Though it waf rough most of the way, Don reports the three-month-old Mason rode like a Lincoln Town Car. The eastern Med is just about on the opposite side of the world from the west coast, but there were a good number of Californians in the Larnaca, Cyprus marina in late May getting ready for the cruising season. Jim and Diana Green Jessie (whose report on the Red Sea passage appears in this issue) of the Oakland-based Nalu IV, reported seeing the following boats: Dick and Bonnie Byhre’s Windsong from Alameda (Dick & Bonnie were celebrating their 11th anniversary); Jack & Lura Francis on Tamarac II from Stockton; Patty and Carl Richards on Verity; Phil and Doris Tworoger on Jolly II Roger; Fran and Jan MacNeil on Isle of Barra; Alan and Gwen Buchan on St. Combs; Reese Palley on Unlikely VII; Jan and Eric Grandjean on Missoiny; and Marina del Rey’s Carl Bur¬ ton on Magic. The latter turns out to be a Columbia 57 that once raced San Francisco Bay under the name Concerto, and is said to still look beautiful. Other American boats whose owner’s names the Jessie’s can’t recall are Polonaise from Los Angeles; Janelle from Seattle; Westwind from Honolulu; Rebel Yell from San Diego; PF Flyer from Los Angeles; Tola, an engineless Columbia 24 from San Diego; and Morning Star from Seattle. Halfway between the Red Sea and the fabled cruising grounds of Turkey and Greece, lovely Cyprus has had a long history of violence. More recently it’s been both the site and a way station of terrorism. Since 1974 the Turks have controlled the northern third of the island while the Greeks control the southern 2/3’s — including Larnaca. Many cruisers put their boats on the hard at Larnaca for the winter season because it’s a terrific place to get work done. Nalu IV, for example, had their engine pulled and keel removed as part of a relatively major refit. All went well. Cruiser’s gift to the world at large? The ex¬

pression ‘Shit Happens’ originated with cruisers trying to explain away their various frustrations with boats, weather, port offi¬ cials, the sea, etc. Gradually the expression appeared on buttons in chandleries and on bumper stickers passed out by sailmakers. More recently we’ve seen it on buttons and bumper stickers sold in mainstream stores like 7/11. While covering the Pacific Cup in Hawaii we couldn’t help but notice the ex¬ pression has gone international; on Ala Moana Blvd. we observed the normally reserved Japanese tourists smiling broadly while wearing t-shirts with ‘Shit Happens’ in huge letters on the front. Longtime readers of Latitude 38 will surely remember Larry Rodamer and Betty Ann Moore. About eight years ago the former San Jose IBM employees left Oakland for a Mexico and South Pacific; they wrote about their travels in these pages under the apt title; Innocents Aboard. They originally returned to Hawaii with the inten¬ tion of building the cruising kitty for further travels. But since then Betty Ann Moore has been rocketing to the higher echelons of the corporate' world while Larry is now the manager of the Texaco Fuel dock at the Ala Wai. Further cruising now looks a long ways away. But there’s always the great Friday night races in Hawaii; with three new sails, Larry and Betty Ann hope to move their Allied 33, Dove, up in the fleet. While talking to Larry at the Texaco Fuel Dock, we noticed the Norseman 447, Denouement, tied up nearby. Larry explains that the owner, Dale Parshall, who is on his way back from New Zealand, also worked at IBM in San Jose. In fact, when Larry and Betty Ann returned from their cruise, Parshall came by to talk, thinking it was something he might like to do someday. Up until April of this year, if you wanted to fly to the winter cruising wonderland of Cabo San Lucas, you had to do so on page 184

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Aero Mexico, Mexicana or — if you were lucky — private plane. Then Aero Mexico went out of business, stranding hundreds of passengers. Filling in the old Aero Mexico gap is Continental Airlines, currently the largest United States carrier operating in Mananaland. Continental now has a 9:05 a.m. L. A. flight for Los Cabos that returns at 11:55 a.m. One-way fares are between $127.50 and $137.50. Since it’s unlikely you’ll be thinking about such flights until November, you’ll want to double-check on schedules and fares at that time. Last month we briefly mentioned the new Club Cruceros de La Paz, or Cruising Club

of La Paz. According to Jimi Murillo of Windsong, who is up in Northern Califor¬ nia for a few months, the new club already has about 200 members. Jay Ramos, longtime cruiser on the Flicka 20, Hay Chiahuahua! (we can never get the spelling right!) is the Commodore. The club was formed for both social and practical reasons. There’s a monthly meeting the third week of the month at Los Arcos Hotel, whose owner, Mario Copland, is also a member of the Cruising Club of La Paz. The club has been recognized by the Port Captain and other authorities, which should help give the cruisers a greater voice in La Paz. Membership is a mere $5 a year, and t-shirts and burgees are available. Currently membership gives cruisers discounts at a couple of hotels in La Paz; similar arrange¬ ments with other businesses are planned. For further information, write Club Cruceros de La Paz, Hotel Los Arcos, Box 112, Codigo Postal 23000, La Paz, B.C.S.f Mex¬ ico. We’ve been made an honorary member of the club, for which we’d like to thank all the members. See you when we sail through in November! Marvin and Leah Rosenberg of Marina del Rey report that on May 10 they resumed their cruise of the east coast of the United page 185

Even at $4.00 a shot, Haagen-Dazs bars are in big demand in Antigua.

States aboard their Morgan 46, Palio. Although chronologically no kid — he flew B-29’s from Guam in WW II — Marvin’s re¬ tained a seemingly childlike curiosity about everyplace he visits. We get a lot of cruising letters, but nobody seems to get more out of each port — be it Washington D.C., Atlantic City, New York or Deltaville — than Marvin. We salute his spirit! While on the subject of Southern Califor¬ nia, former Belvedere residents Bill and Heather Clute report that they’ve “traded in their gold chains and pastels for jeans and cowboy boots”. Yes, they’ve moved their Perry 52 from Marina del Rey to Ventura. “Real mountains and fresh breezes,” they write, noting they’re “going to the stock car races tonight and a KHAY country music concert on Saturday night.” Part of the reason for their move was that their daughters Cathy and Dixie are opening up a business a few miles up the coast in Santa Barbara. Northern California sailors will remember the Clutes for owning the Ericson 39 Chiquita, the Peterson 41 High Noon, and the Peterson 48 Annabelle Lee. Joyce, Martin and Otto on Nanok report that they spent the winter in Denmark before moving on to Poland. While not on most cruising itineraries, the crew on Nanok found the beleaguered country to be “great, with very friendly people and low prices when compared with Denmark”. The boat is now cruising the Baltic on its way to Spain. Jim Hill and sons of Palo Alto have been cruising Yugoslavia aboard their Farr 55, Spellbound and having a terrific time. Hill’s old Star sailing buddy, Lowell North, is expected to join the boat again for the end of summer. Rod Hilton, who says he picks up stray

copies of Latitude “from New York to Panama”, says we’ve been making a small error when writing about Mike Starbuck. Ac¬ cording to Hilton, Starbuck’s Playa Blanca digs are on the mainland about three miles north of Portobello. For some reason we’d always been under the impression that Playa Blanca was on an island. Our apologies! In¬ cidentally, if you need a Caribbean cruiser that already knows her way around, you might check the Classy Classifieds. After seven years of cruising the Caribbean with his Schneider Pennant sloop, Amiga, Hilton is selling her to move up to a boat in the 40-ft range. At last report, Shirlee Edwards and Neil Thomson of the Sausalito-based Freya 39, Fitzroy, were at anchor at Caleta Partida, Baja. They’re a little behind schedule. Originally they’d intended to spend the sum¬ mer varnishing boats in San Diego and then spend the ’87-’88 winter season in Mexico. But when they arrived in San Diego, they discovered that the boat varnishing business wasn’t so good. First off, there was lots of competition, which isn’t that bad. But secondly, the marinas demand a percentage of your earnings. That’s very bad. You have to be flexible to survive, so just a month later Shirlee and Neil were actively employed housepainters. One job lead to another, and by August they’d hooked into a restoration project which — unbeknownst to them — would take eight months and wipe out any hope of cruising Mexico that winter. In¬ terestingly enough, the Coronado house they would restore was built in 1927 and had been designed by — believe it or not — Francis Herreshoff. When not designing houses, he’s said to have drawn a few boats, too. With the work taking so long, Fitzroy didn’t head sbuth for Mexico until May 6 — exactly a year after they arrived in San Diego. Leaving late in the season, they were blessed with following winds the entire way; both down to Cabo San Lucas and then up to La Paz. As for Baja, where they plan to spend the summer, they say, “. . . we’re very impressed and enjoying every minute.” As for us, we hope you’re enjoying every minute of your cruising life and will drop us a line from time to time to tell us how things are going. If you can include a photograph with it, that makes it all the better.

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THE FOLLOWING IS A COMBINED LISTING OF CLASSIFIED ADS FROM LATITUDE 38 AND LATITUDE 34.

GREAT PELICAN. 16'x8' daysailer with large cockpit. Professionally built by Bill Duffin in Sausalito. Hull fiberglassed. In excellent con¬ dition. Complete with trailer, 4 hp Seagull o.b., sails & storm jib. $2,750/B.0. (415) 388-4571.

16-FT S.F. GREAT PELICAN. Tabernacled mast, kick-up rudder, cuddy cabin, inboard motor well, 6 hp Johnson, main & jib like new. Trailer totally rebuilt, new tires & spare. All in excellent condition. $3,500. (415) 846-3941.

SOME PEOPLE THINK ’ROSANNA’ is the best-looking Santana 22 around. Probably not, but she's definitely the best one for sale. White LPU, red graphics, black Micron bot¬ tom, Vetus non-skid decking, spinnaker, race rigged, ultralight outboard. Drysailed. $5,900. (415) 388-6531.

’84 15-FT SLOOP WEST WIGHT POTTER.

J/24 BUILT BY PEARSON. (E/Coast) 77 Hull

Hardly used w/new o.b. motor & tilt-back trailer. Honda 2 hp engine has less than 45 min. of use. $2,600. Ramsey, (415) 564-8201 after 3 p.m.

#128. 6 hp o.b. Depthfinder, knotmeter. As new Trailrite trailer and many other extras. Must sell! $9,000. (415) 382-9372. Daytime phone (415) 453-7020. Ask for Glenn Abbey.

’87 CATALINA 22 SWING KEEL. Pop-top, mint condition, loaded with extras. Swing-up rudder, o.b. motor, trailer. $10,500/060. Eves. (916) 481-3545.

THE S.F. BAY CAL 20 FLEET . . . sponsors

boat cover, new wiring, new cushions, new lifevest, new anchor & line 200’, new main, new storm jib, new 160%, new paint, bot¬ tom, interior, hull & deck. $4,100. Days (408) 476-3831.

ERICSON 25 WITH TRAILER. Rare quality for ramp-launchable pocket-yacht. 2'/2-ft draft with centerboard up. 6 sails incl. spin. 15 hp elec-start o.b., autopilot, VHF, speedo, fatho, beautiful mahogany interior, pictures available, delivery possible. Great Baja boat. $12,900. (714) 970-1430 eves.

21-FT COLUMBIA. New flotation, masthead, chainplates, plexiglass doors, deck, outboard. Must sell. $2,500/OBO. Need approx. 40' hull sail or power, fixer-upper OK. No derelicts. Serious family looking for future liveaboard. Small down owner financed, or ? Marc Strong, (209) 575-4574.

CAL 20. Fully rebuilt, new mast, new bottom

SANTANA 20. Fully equipped, 2 mains, 2 jibs,

paint 7/1/88. A new jib & 2 mains, Johnson 6 hp. A super boat with a Kappas Marina berth (Sausalito). Call Tom, 332-4628 eves. $4,000.

spinnaker, 6 hp Johnson, trailer. Many ex¬ tras. Good condition. Priced to sell. $3,800. Brian (408) 476-7702.

new cushions, berth cockpit, Porta-potti, full cover, many extras, fresh teak, wax, paint. Excellent throughout. Great trailer! Fully equipped. Ready to sail. $6,950. Call Larry in San Diego, (619) 299-2771.

CAL 20-FT. New trailer, new outboard, new

AQUARIUS 23. VHF, compass, printer fatho, J/24, 1981. White, 10 sails, trailer, motor, excellent condition, great for racing or cruis¬ ing the Bay. We are moving this fall so bring offers. $12,000. 567-9987.

stereo, 7.5 Honda with alternator, battery charger, head, weather cloths, cushions, ground tackle, 2 battery 12-volt plus shorepower, 4 sails. Swing keel, trailer, extras, $4,500/OBO. 873-4898.

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APPRAISER

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(415) 276-4351

NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING 1. Boat Remains in Berth. Dick Loomis

Magneutotm System Exclusively 2. Owner’s Presence Not Necessary. 3. Eliminate Deviation. (415) 453-3923 days or eves.

BOAT LETTERING Signs • Graphics

Beautiful, long lasting & reasonable priced. Call for our convenient order form. (415)430-2899

local races, cruises, picnics, parties and seminars on rigging and sailing techniques, and we're active in the International Cal 20 Class Association. Join us. For information, call (415) 550-8966.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25-FT, 1976 Offshore cruiser. New gelcoat & bottom paint. Inboard Yanmar dsl, alcohol stove, sink, head, sleeps 4, 3 sails, $20,000. (415) 499-9676. BEAR BOAT #13. A classic 23’ wooden boat designed for sailing the Bay. Varnished hull, spinnaker, 2 jibs, main. Evinrude 6 o.b. Sound condition with recent survey. $3,900/OBO. Leave message for Frank at (415) 346-1423.

21-FT VENTURE, 1973. Swingkeel, trailer, 7.5 hp Sears Gamefisher eng., 3 sails. We purchased a larger boat. Must sell! $2,600/B.0. Call (209) 474-0123 eves/ weekends. J/24. West Coast built. Good condition. Many extras including: Evinrude 4.5, Barient self¬ tailing winches, depth & knotmeters & trailer. Make an offer! Call (415) 852-2310 weekdays or (408) 749-0274 anytime.

BRITEWORKS YACHT MAINTENANCE Expert quality wood care. Varnish. Refinishing. Decks. Compound. Wax. Painting. Caulking. Diving. Cleaning. Lettering. Repairs. Maintenance Programs. Serving the Bay Area 14 years. References. Fast, Reasonable Work Guaranteed (415) 454-3441.

INSURANCE AND DOCUMENTATION DONA JENKINS MARITIME DOCUMENT SERVICE, INC. U.S.C.G. Documentation, Mexican Fishing Licenses Mexican Consular Clearances 1050 Rosecrans #3, San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 223-2279

1985 BENETEAU First 38 available for charter or yacht share. Located Newport Beach. 3 bags & tri radial spin¬ naker, refrigeration, all self-tailing winches. Signet 1000 & 1500, 2 heads, sleeps 7 PHRF rated. Call Greg (213) 382-0485; Linda (714) 675-7100.

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classy classifieds

ONLY ONE PERSON HAS #1! Hull #1, sail

1974 16-FT GLASTRON GT. New 130 hp Volvo Penta, new upholstery, hull in excellent condition. (707) 829-9392 eves., let ring.

#1. The first Santana 22 that W.D. Schock ever built is for sale. Completely rebuilt & restored. Five sails including 2 spinnakers, one new. Outboard & trailer. Have the first: $9,500. Tim Clifford, (408) 728-4473.

RHODES 19-FT. Good, solid G Boat that could use a little care. Great for Bay. Sausalito berth. Evinrude o.b. $1,000. Call Debbie, (415) 285-7884 or Charlie, (415) 759-5975.

ERICSON 23-FT & TRAILER. Like new, 10 hp

o.b. Porta-potti, brass winches, sleeps 4, Bowe pulpit & much, much more. Asking $10,000. (916) 637-4666.

O’DAY 22-FT. Working sails, genoa, speed

rail, anchors, 2’ draft, cockpit rigged, heavyduty trailer. Perfect condition. $5,500. (415) 332-4457 lain.

1982 SPINTA SPORT 23-FT racer-cruiser.

Sleeps 4, light, responsive & comfortable. Must sell! $6,000. Ray, 845-7671 or 841-6672.

BAHAMA 25. Full keel, big cockpit, new elec¬ tronics, new cushions, autohelm, new head, make offer. Joe, 532-8953.

20-FT SNAPDRAGON. Stiff, dry Bay boat,

with trailer, 7 hp o.b. Upwind Berkeley berth. $2,500. (415) 524-3025 or (415) 524-7865 eves. & weekends. MEDICAL

EMERGENCY

FORCES

holes, teak trim, o.b., df, VHF. $14,500. (415) 461-0510; 620-2830.

SALE.

CAL 20. Excellent condition. Race-rigged and

many extras. $3,500 or B/.O. Eves. (415) 892-1171. $1,000. Balboa 20 cabin sloop. Good condi¬ tion. 4 hp o.b., 29" draft, fast & stable. Valle¬ jo berth. Must sell now, my loss is your gain! (707) 578-0377.

LASER 2 AND TRAILER. 14’6” Good condi¬

tion, ready to sail or race. Main, jib, spin¬ naker, Turtle bag, trapeze & trapeze seat. New 1987 Shoreline brand trailer. $2,000/0B0. Call Bob at (408) 737-9087.

CAL 20. Ideally suited for the Bay. Very clean. Large cockpit. Sleeps 4. North sails. Hydraulic motor mount. Sacrifice. $2,695/0B0. Dave, (415) 383-5300 days or (415) 435-5659 eves.

CATALINA 25-FT. With trailer & loaded with

extras. 9 sails, 10 hp Honda, propane stove, refrigeration, pumpout head plus many more for only $18,500 or offer. Send stamped, self-addressed envelope for all details to K. Hansen, 2940 Los Altos Way, Antioch, CA 94509.

S-2 6.8 22-FT, 1979. E-Z Loader trailer, 7.5

Merc, shoal keel, centerboard, flush deck, head, sleeps 4, head, phone. Sausalito berth. $12,000. (415) 332-8784.

CAPRI 22, '86 RACE EQUIPPED. All racing

(Morrelli) sails. Trailer, motor, epoxy bottom. Always in fresh water. $9,500. (916) 891-8736.

CATALINA 25. Swing keel, roller furling 150

genoa. Traditional interior. Pop-top with enclosure. 7.5 Honda o.b. Some spinnaker gear. Dual batteries. Depthsounder. Cockpit cushions. $13,950. Call (916) 662-9072.

CATALINA 22, '87. Used 4 times, loaded, deluxe interior, Honda motor, '88 trailer, epoxy barrier coat when new. $11,500/offer/ trade. (916) 891-8736.

13-FT BANSHEE SAILBOAT. Excellent condi¬ tion. Nearly new sail, fiberglass rudder & fiberglass daggerboard. Low serial number, lightweight hull for class racing. $1,095. Call (916) 662-9072.

Desperate, anxious, negotiable seller. Great Sausalito berth. Good clean boat, sleeps 4. Start at $5,100. (707) 545-8614. CAL 25.

WILDERNESS 21. In great shape. Must see and test drive. Complete with trailer, o.b., new mainsail & rigging, spinnaker equipped. At Lake Tahoe for past 2 years. Now dry sailed from Sausalito. $6,OQO/OBO. (415) 435-6287.

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bottom paint, new hull & spar paint. Santa Cruz berth avail. $8,900/OB0. (408) 475-4948.

VENTURE 24 — $5,500. 110%, 150% genoas, main has jiffy reefing. Freshly painted bottom & trailer. Lifelines & many extras. Fast & fun. (408) 866-0709 eves; (415) 852-6309 days, Ray.

COLUMBIA 22. Great Bay boat, Richmond berth, new 7.5 Honda, radio, anchor, every clean boat. $4,500/OBO. (415) 322-7163.

25- FT NORDIC FOLKBOAT. Priced to move!

Recent haulout. Good condition, outboard, main, 3 jibs, spinnaker, automatic electric pump, lights, lifejackets, complete. Good up¬ wind Berkeley slip. $3,500/OBO. Call Dave now! Days (415) 655-3990; eves. (415) 655-8070.

RACING

DINGHY

VANGUARD.

Tapered mast, all Harken gear, 9 sails, new complete set of Pineapple sails, boat covers. Yellow/blue topsides, white hull, with trailer. All excellent condition. Trade for Laser plus cash or $1,700. (415) 432-3985.

IMPACT 18. This is an agile highperformance daysailer. Planes in good breeze. Comes with jib, main, spinnaker, trapeze, trailer, etc. $1,800/OBO. Days (408) 338-2128; eves. (408) 338-4785, ask for Dana. CATALINA 25, 1979. With Santa Cruz slip. One owner. Sleeps 5. Trailerable. Pop-top, VHF, depth, knot, compass, splitback stay, tabernacle, full boat covers, Jiffy reefing, etc. New Flonda 9.9 LS. Very clean. Perfect starter/family sailboat. $12,500. (408) 688-7800. CAL 20 IN GOOD CONDITION. Oakland berth.

Must sell, possibly moving from Bay Area! $2,000/OBO. Home (408) 997-6910; work (408) 973-2016. MOORE 24. Fresh water boat, excellent con¬ dition, trailer, o.b., many sails & extras. $11,500. (916) 583-5914 or (415) 930-9998, leave message. QUALITY 24-FT S2 YACHT. 15 hp inboard,

1978, beautiful, deal at around $6,900. (415) 759-5811.

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THE CREW LIST by Marine Data Services Directory listing recreational and commercial positiqps/situations wanted and available. Cruis¬ ing, Racing, Day Sailing, Partnerships, Personals, Deliveries, Careers. West Coast/U.S./International. Updated monthly. Listings: 75 words, $3.00 a month, plus $5.00 1-time set-up charge. Directories. $6.00. MARINE DATA SERVICES, P.O. Box 2394, Woodland, CA 95695.

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL ISLANDS Explore the exciting Channel Islands. 1 have a fast and comfortable Santana 37 especially equipped for this exceptional cruising area. ASA instructor, fully provisioned. Free brochure. Capt. Peter Crane, 1817 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 569-0403 y

VANCOUVER 25. A husky 7,000 lb. fiber¬

glass cruising boat. Has 15 hp inboard dsl, roller furling jib & a custom teak hatch. Boat is in excellent condition & has been in fresh water only. $18,500. (512) 653-3863 (TX). 1987 CATALINA 25. Near new condition.

Fixed keel, trailer, pop-top, Honda 10 hp, roller furling, very well equipped including stove, ST winches, VHF, knotmeter, ds & much more. Cost $24K new, my loss your gain. $18,500 firm. (707) 528-9133. J/24 — NO MONEY DOWN! Beautiful onedesign racer. 2 sets of sails (one racing & one practice/cruising), new VHF radio, new mast-mounted compass, 4'/2 hp Johnson, anchor & safety equip., special new travellermainsheet system, plus a single axle trailer. Call for details. $12,500. No money down, only $125/month! (408) 429-6306. COMPAC 16 SLOOP. Excellent condition. Sleeps 2. Includes mainsail, jib, genoa, & spinnaker. New o.b., Ritchie compass with hatchmount, bow pulpit with anchor mount. Mahogany interior & exterior trim. Trailer & many extras. $2,600. Tim, (408) 238-4515. BRISTOL 22-FT, 1971. Good condition, 7V2

hp Johnson o.b. Coyote Pt. berth. $4,500. (415) 345-8882. 23-FT DORY. Bruynzeel lapstrake 1979.

Cape Ann sailing dory with 2 rowing posi¬ tions, centerboard, main & 2 jibs. Includes: sails (3), oars (4), o.b., ground tackle, trailer, canvas cover. $3,400/B.0. (415) 841-9403 eves./weekends.

25-FT

SANTANA 22. Hull 51. Rigged for racing, 6

cold-molded sloop, flushdeck. Built & sailed by owner, this boat is fully equipped & can go anywhere. Chuck Paine designed with no expense spared in construction. Located at Schoonmakers in Sausalito. $20,000. (415) 331-5452.

hp o.b., Barient winches, mainsail, class lapper & spinnaker, knotmeter, radio, other ex¬ tras. Great boat for the Bay. $5,000/B.0. Phone 881-0518.

SEAWORTHY,

BEAUTIFUL,

FAST

21-FT MERMAID SLOOP. New deck & paint

Ready to sail. $2,750. (415) 658-1024.

CAL 20. Trailer, new Honda O.B. Lewmar winches, 5 sails, new Porta-potti, new dacron sheets, halyards. $3,250/OBO. (916) 966-5975 eves.

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J/24. Motor, main, jib, genoa, spin., head,

pocket cruiser, great boat for the Bay, 10 hp o.b., new upholstery, new rigging, many ex¬ tras. San Rafael berth. $7,500. Call (707) 433-3202.

CAPE DORY 25,1979. Full keel, brass port¬

Freedom 21, 1985. Main, jib & spinnaker. E-Z Loader trailer, Honda 7.5 o.b. Used 6 times, excellent condition. Tilt-up mast step. All Harken equipped. Contact Steve, (707) 527-9180 eves.

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24- FT COLUMBIA CONTENDER. Full keel

Specializing In Fiberglass

Robert D. Counts (415) 990-7100

3020 Bridgeway Suite 260 Sausalito, CA 94965

LEARN TO SAIL Golden Gate Sailing School Over 20 years experience teaching on San Francisco Bay. Six three-hour lessons: $190. Sausalito Bob Counts (415) 990-7100

ALAN OLSON MARINE SERVICES 331-1282 — 331-9126 Carpentry — Electrical — Rigging — Plumbing — Mechanical Over 25 years experience. Reliable. Reasonable.

25-FT- AND UNDER - CONT'D

ALACRITY I8V2-FT, 1966. Fiberglass sloop.

Good condition. Evinrude 4. Five sails, an¬ chor, compass, sleeps 2. Great Delta cruiser. Boat in Delta. (415) 939-7919. $1,500. TANZER 16-FT DAYSAILER. 6' beam, lots of

room. Swing keel, 2 sails, lots of storage for & aft. Johnson 2 hp o.b. Highlander trailer. All in good condition. $1,950. (408) 266-1899. v BRISTOL 24. Proven full keel family & Bay

pocket cruiser. New main, custom stern rail w/ladder, 7.5 o.b. w/alternator in motor well, recent survey. $7,000. Call before 8 p.m. Ken or Starr, (707) 526-0702.

clossy clossifieds 23-FT NORWEGIAN CHARACTER SAILBOAT’. Particularly cute. Volvo diesel,

new sails, alum, mast, head, galley area, 2 berths, new cushions, teak decks, roomy cockpit, custom tiller, also Captain's wheel steering inside, VHF, compass, anchor, life¬ jackets, depthfinder. Sausalito berth. $9,500/offer. (415) 653-0615. Built 1958, Yokohama, Japan by Okamoto & Son Boatyard. Mahogany on oak, copper riveted, Sitka spruce spars, many extras. Seakindly pocket cruiser, fully restored. Redwood City berth. $8,000 firm. (408) 248-6735. 25-FT FLEUR BLEUE, MARIPOSA.

26-FT PEARSON ARIEL 1967. Good condi¬ tion. Hauled & refinished bottom & topside. New sail cover, self-furling jib, 9 hp Evinrude o.b., active racing class, winner 1978. Sausalito berth. Good Bay boat. (415) 765-7310 weekdays (norm); (415) 435-3797 weekends & evenings.

ROSS 930. New Zealand built racer/family cruiser w/3 self-tacking jibs, 150 genoa, 2 chutes. Sapelle mahoganyjnferior w/berths for 7. Enclosed head, galley, chart table. Easy & fun to sail. $29,900 or B.O. (415) 831-0221. COLUMBIA 28-FT. Great condition, Atomic 4

VENTURE 25, 1977. Modified mid-boom

sheeting with traveler, knotmeter, compass, Porta-potti, all C.G. required equipment. 7.5 hp Mercury o.b. is optional. Will consider trade involving windsurfers and/or dinghy (inflatable OK). Boat on Trailrite trailer. Gary, (408) 926-1162 eves, or weekends. S2 7.3 24-FT PERFORMANCE CRUISING SLOOP. 5 sails inch spinnaker & new jib.

Honda 7.5 o.b., VHF, Datamarine knot/log, Newmar charger, galley, head, sleeps 4. Rig¬ ged for singlehanding. Teak interior, new cushions. $10K. (408) 288-5092. TRADE FOR VAN? Coronado 25: ideal family

cruiser, fast/stable, sleeps 5. Excellent condi¬ tion, many rigging/hull upgrades, new equipment/electronics, 5 hp o.b. Outfitted liveaboard: phone, hot water, oven, stove, icebox, berth with view, folding dinette. $6,900. 655-3009. J/24. $9,250 or make offer. Good condition

(lightly raced), 2 o.b., VHF, custom cushions, class sails, lots of equipment. (415) 929-3572 days; (415) 933-6621 eves. SANTANA 22. #280. New standing rigging,

LPU hull paint, interior paint, cushions, elec¬ trical system, VHF, bottom painted 3/88. Evinrude 6 hp, spinnaker, windvane self¬ steering. $3,600/OBO. Jeff 654-1554.

26 TO 35 FEET

BEAUTIFUL TRADITIONAL POCKET CRUISER Nordic Folkboat. Mahog. on oak, DUTCH STEEL 34-FT CUTTER. Van de Stadt design, beautifully built with round bilges. Comfortable cruiser refitted in 1985-86 with new Norseman rigging, Yanmar dsl, wiring, propane cookstove, cabin heater, sails, ST winches, plumbing, Cold Plate refrigeration, ds, batteries, autopilot, cushions, SatNav, fuel tanks, dodger, Bimini. Aries vane, Avon liferaft, 9 sails, windlass, VHF, RDF, stereo, lots of spares. Newly painted & surveyed. The beauty of wood with the strength of steel. Laying in Honolulu, ready to cruise. $65K. Call (808) 531-7955 days or (808) 545-2889 eves, for details.

1984 UNION 32. Teak interior, Margas pro¬

pane, pressure/hot water, Signet 1000 and 1500, Autohelm 5000, windlass, four sails, berthed Emery Cove Marina, C-19. Asking $58,000. (702) 882-1420. BUCCANEER 27-FT. Perfect for Bay/Delta.

Center cockpit, steering wheel, dodger, furl¬ ing genoa, aft cabin, Volvo dsl (0 time), shorepower, sleeps 6, full galley, full head, VHF, depth, compass, trailerable. See, in the water at Napa. $12,000. (707) 226-9491. INTERNATIONAL ONE DESIGN. 33.5-ft., rac¬

CORONADO 15. Exciting trapeze dinghy. Race rigged, 3 sets of sails, trailer. $1,900/OBO. Call Bill, (415) 331-8120.

i.b., full headroom, galley, head, sleeps 6. $10,000. 435-3540.

ing sloop, hull #86, a beauty, mahogany topsides, well-maintained. $10,000/offer. (415) 848-1717 days; (415) 525-3768 eves.

Mexico tvet, dodger, bow & stern pulpits & lifelines, British Seagull, fast & easy to han¬ dle. Colvin lug rig, must see to appreciate. $6,900/080. (415) 234-3690. CATALINA 27-FT, 1982. Diesel, custom North sails, kndtmeter, depthmeter, VHF, compass, AM/FM cassette, custom cabinets & berths. All controls led aft, original owner, fresh water sailed on Folsom Lake. Like new. Extras. $22,000. (916) 652-9407. 26-FT INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT. Swedish built, f/g, 1978. '87 Yanmar 10 hp dsl. Full galley, enclosed head/sink, Navik vane, 4 sails w/spinnaker, Datamarine knot & depth, Horizon VHF, dodger, CQR & Danforth, Epoxy bottom. Nicest I.F. stateside! $17,900. (415) 841-0885.

1962 PEARSON TRITON at a fantastic price! 28'9”. Full rigged, Atomic 4 gas, VHF, new wiring, new battery, new main, good overall condition. Owner desires quick sale. $9,500/ OBO. Marie Schafle, 728-3412 or 923-4722 days. SEAWORTHY 31-FT TANCOOK gaff-rigged schooner. Zero hours on Grey Marine in¬ board. Good sails. Built 1962 by Bill Duffim in Sausalito. Now finishing new paint, bot¬ tom, varnish. Cruise in style, inexpensively. $15,500. 243-9129 or 282-3038, for a little simple elegance.

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SAIL THE SEA OF CORTEZ $1,500/September thru May. $1,250/June thru August. 41-ft Morgan Outlsland ketch. Sleeps 7. 3 cabins, 2 heads. Fully equipped. Can be crewed and/or provisioned. Bob Moore (707) 765-1960 or (415) 883-7720.

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ISIS: 32' sloop, one-off Gary Mull design. Designed for singlehanded TransPac. Full complement of sails & electronics. Diesel. Perfect for racing or cruising. (415) 821-1075. MORGAN 32. Original owner, wellmaintained, fresh water cooled diesel, pressure hot water, shower, spinnaker, 150, 135, 110 jibs, VHF, Combi navigator, 5 winches, wheel steering, much more, club racer or strong roomy cruiser, 11.5-ft beam. Asking $37,950. (408) 779-1472. CAT 30. Clean, guaranteed bottom. 1983. Leading Edge Sails. White hull, tan decks. $30,000. (408) 268-1766. COLUMBIA 29. New main, new working jib, 2 other sails, rebuilt engine, VHS, ds, heater, good condition, excellent Bay boat, full keel. $12,000/OBO. Phone 892-0714 days; 897-7390 eves. ALBIN VEGA 27. F/g sloop. 1974. Swedish, excl. cond. Tough ocean pocket cruiser. Molded semi-full keel. Volvo dsl, windvane, feathering adv. pitch prop, genoa, 3 jibs, cruise spinnaker. Possible owner finance. $20,000. $22,000 with radar & loran. Sheldon, (415) 581-0766. CLASSIC MASTER MARINER. 29-ft gaff rig sloop. Built in Denmark in 1932. Varnished teak hull, teak deck, teak cabin. Sails as good as she looks. Excellent condition with many extras. Watertight. 7' beam, 4.5' headroom. $7,000/OBO. Greg (408) 338-3255. 1983 HUNTER 30 — $27,500. Excellent condition, many extras, Yanmar dsl, refrig., wheel steering, press, water & Richmond berth. A great price for this much boat. Call (916) 966-6473 weekdays after 4:30.

1008 Drake Ave., Burlingame, CA 94010 Sail and Powerboat Surveys of all types • Accepted by all banks and insurance co. • Serving the entire Bay and Delta area • Member of Marine Surveyors Guild (415) 347-2778

38-FT BENETEAU First 38, 1985, popular cruising layout. Two full heads, sleeps 7, Loran, refrigeration, 11 ST winches, 3 bags plus chute, Signet 1000,1500. Available for Charter. Yacht share partners wanted. $375/mo. guarantees minimum 60 days a year. Greg, (213) 382-0485.

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San Juan Islands hands-on instructional cruises. 2, 5 & 7-day cruises low as $205. Personal instruction, exceptional boats, excellent meals. SAILCRAFT MARINE SAILING SCHOOL, 2419 S.W. 146, Seattle, WA 98166 (206) 244-5797.

CLASSIC 1927 6-METER. LOD 35', 6.6' beam, galley, head, 10 hp o.b. Needs TLC. Must sell. $12K/terms/or $10K cash. (415) 522-2360 msg.

George L. Gombasy Marine Surveyor

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Sweden 38’ high-performance sloop — $1,400. Variety of well-maintained sail & power boats available from competent charter company. Depart prime cruising location. Custom & sail training available. Freya Marine Company, 909 3rd, Anacortes, WA 98221. (206) 293-4528.

CATALINA 27-FT, 1973. Inboard, Atomic 4, midship dinette, knot, depth, VHF, 110v and 12v, compass, bilge pump, trickle charger, Scentry detector, Lectra/san head, alcohol stove. Bristol clean. $14,400. (415) 341-8009.

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clossy clossifieds PEARSON 30-FT, 1978. Wheel steering, Atomic 4 runs great, Sausalito YH, singlehand/liveaboard/or daysail. 2 jibs, sails+. Looks great. Phone, shorepower. Call Blick, 331-0715 eves; 955-9400 days. I’M MOVING OVERSEAS. Old Crow is stay¬ ing behind. Archer-inspired classic doubleended cruising cutter. 26’ on deck, 8’ beam, full keel, cedar on oak, Atomic 4. At Kermit Parker's, San Rafael, YH. $10,500. CATALINA 27, 1983. Diesel, traditional in¬ terior, Harken furling/reefing system 1988, new standing/running rigging 1988, halyards led aft, self-tailing winches, cockpit cushions, depthsounder, knotmeter, ground tackle, fenders, bottom painted 1988, radio, safety gear. Brisbane Marina. $21,000. (415) 592-8537. 27-FT LARSEN VEGA, 1974. Clean, wellequipped. $13,500. Will haul, paint, zinc. (408) 365-5517; (408) 264-9908. 31-FT SWEDISH BUILT F/G SLOOP. Sleeps 4, full sail inventory. Volvo inboard dsl. Rigged for singlehanding. 2 boat owners. Must sell. $18,000. Eves. (415) 383-3154. 30-FT STEEL CUTTER. Km, ds, VHF, mahogany interior, built ’87, needs engine, sandblasted & finished with LPU, sleeps 5. Cruise in safety. Moving forces sale. Desperate. Must sell by 9/88. $19,500/B.O. Eves. (415) 961-1292. CRUISING KNARR #62. Beautiful condition. Real performance boat with cruising interior. Sleeps 4. 30’4”x7’x4’3’’. Danish built. Mahog. on oak. Knotmeter, depthsounder. 6 Barients. Full cover, head, spinnaker, CQR, sink, stove. 1983 mast, rigging, 7’/2 hp Evinrude. Slip included. $6,000. (415) 641-4421. NOR'SEA 27. Aft cabin sloop, 1978, factory finished, 15 hp Yanmar dsl. Sale fell through, she is still available. The finest small cruising yacht available for any price, now only $26,900! Located in Redwood City. Call John at (408) 335-5251. BABA 30, 1980 CUTTER. SatNav, autopilot, Ham radio, VHF, depthsounder, windspeed, stereo, refrigeration, dodger, dsl heater, 7 bags North sails, windlass, 3 anchors, 400’ chain. Ready to cruise Excellent cond. Over $85K invested. $69,000/OBO. (415) 655-2735 eves.

EXCALIBUR 26-FT F/G SLOOP. Built 1966. Excellent condition. Sleeps 4. Enclosed head. Evinrude 6. 4 sails including spinnaker & pole, anchor, compass. Clean interior. Ex¬ cellent Bay racer/cruiser. She's ready for you to sail her away. $4,500. (415) 939-7919.

CATALINA 27, 1978. Impeccable condition. New dodger, new interior upholstery, new compass, new depthsounder, club jib, 110%, o.b., VHF, knotmeter, 2 Danforth anchors, galley, head. Terrific Bay boat. $1,450. Would consider trade up. Tom, (415) 897-2991.

27-FT KAUFMAN 1/4 TON 1975. 27 x10 2 x 5’2”. 3,700 lbs. 9 Barients (4 2-spd), 15 bags including 4 spinnakers & some Mylar (although some worn). Micron, Valmet in¬ board. At San Leandro D-28. $8,000. Jim, (408) 294-6827.

PEARSON 30, 1974. Well-maintained. Pro¬ pane stove, telephone hook-up, stereo/cass., new main cabin cushions, Atomic 4, VHF, depthsounder & more. Sails: main, 3 jibs. Just hauled, new bottom paint. Sail away $22,500. Call (415) 626-9789.

CASCADE 29. One of the nicest you'll see. Hawaii vet. Teak decks, rebuilt motor (70 hrs.) Spinnaker gear, VHF radio, 4 sails. $14,000. (415) 457-8279.

CAL 30, 1966. Great Bay sailer! Excellent condition, full keel, Atomic 4. $14,500/OBO. Call Ron or Ken, days (415) 775-1165; nights (415) 258-9826.

WESTSAIL 32, HULL 742, 1976. Ash over¬ head, skylight, 3 cylinder Volvo dsl, 4 sails, anchor windlass, RDF, VHF, depthsounder. $42,000. (415) 935-5891.

BALBOA 27. Excellent trailerable sloop with more room than many 32 footers. Cruise equipped. Yanmar dsl, 3-burner stove w/oven, 4 sails, refrigeration, dodger/Bimini, 2 batteries, enclosed head, VHF, km, ds, Harken mainsheet system, all lines led into cockpit for easy handling, SS stern mounted ladder, new bottom paint, Trailrite trailer with brakes. Over $7,000 in extras since '86 make Sisu the best equipped Balboa around. Ready to go cruising Mexico/Caribbean/anywhere again. Must sell now! $18,950. (916) 721-6587.

COL 8.7,1977. Offshore equipped 29’ sloop. Loran, autohelm, VHF, wheel, Atomic 4 gas, stereo, Barient winches. 23K/B.O. 935-2047. HARTLEY 30,1969. Full cruising equipment. Perkins, SatNav, Givens, Monitor, Honda generator, Achilles, 3-burner stove. $16,500 total T.O.P. + Catalina 22 or other trailerable boat. Mon.-Tues.-Thurs. eves. & weekends (805) 658-2672. CAL 29. Built 1969. One owner, good condi¬ tion, SBYRA Races 1st 8 times. 2nd or 3rd 4 times, fully rigged, spinnaker, 3 jibs, VHF, AM/FM, depth, compass, etc., inboard Atomic 4. $14,500 or offer. (415) 369-1149.

AMAZON 30. "Smooth as glass, tough as nails.” The finest 30’ steel sailboat built in the world. Factory finished & equipped to cruise anywhere. $65,000. Call Dan Ander¬ son: (707) 253-9270, for an equipment list or to arrange a test sail.

DUTCH MAID 30. Good Bay/Delta boat. Sleeps 4. Volvo dsl, VHF, Digital depth¬ sounder, refrigerator, enclosed head. 2-yearold main, storm jib & small spinnaker. $8,000/OBO. (707) 552-8389.

32-FT WESTSAIL. Fully equipped. Tahiti veteran, SatNav, Ham, windvane, Autohelm, generator, frige., 6 sails, 5 anchors, dinghy w/engine, etc., etc. $46,000. (714) 521-7047.

RANGER 33. Legendary Gary Mull racer/ cruiser. Very clean, comfortable, lots of storage, sleeps 6, wheel steering, alcohol stove & Atomic 4 with new exhaust. Includes 5 sails (new main & jib), VHF. Call (408) 374-4935 after 5:30. $31K/offer.

CAL 2-30 SLOOP. Rigged well, needs TLC. Have extra engine. Jack London Square berth. Will sell all or partners or rent or lease or trade for trailer-type boat, power or sail, R.V., car or truck, etc. $22,500. (209) 869-3215.

35-FT ELDRIDGE MCINNIS YAWL. Built 1960, dbl. planked mahogany on oak, bronze fastened, 6 sails in good to excellent shape. Hull & deck in excellent cond. Protected by a full boat cover. Not a fixer-upper! $33,000/ OBO. Mike, 548-5545, leave message!

1982 CATALINA 30. Trinity III, Atomic 4, dskm, VHF, AM-FM stereo, VCR, H&C press. H20, refrigeration, phone, Autohelm, epoxy bottom, excellent condition. $32,500/OBO. (919) 963-3101 days; (916) 963-3402 after 5. Ask for Brian.

RANGER 26-FT. Outboard, spinnaker, rigged for singlehanding, adj. backstay, electronic. Good condition. $10,500/OBO. Call Larry at (415) 881-5560.

26-FT ERICSON SLOOP, 1969. Fiberglass, good condition, new rigging, new Honda o.b. Great boat for Catalina or beyond, vyill assist with slip. $6,800/OBO. (213) 305-7093.

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1973 35 CORONADO SLOOP. Great liveaboard berth South Bay Peninsula, ACDC refrig., AC-DC stereo, AC-DC color TV, radio direction finder, VHF FM radio tele., depthsounder & a microwave oven. $42,000/B.0. Call (415) 366-9088. CAL 2-27. Excellent condition. White with blue trim. Ideally rigged racing or cruising. Class sails only used one season. Lots of equip: depth, knot, VHF, stereo, Atomic 4. $21,000. Call Ray, eves. (415) 883-3604; days (415) 332-2319. SANTANA 35. Minx. Fully equipped, new UK main, 155% genoa, daisy (15 bags), Volvo Penta, 8 Barient winches, Micrologic loran, VHF, Sony stereo & more. Excellent racer/ cruiser with solid performance record. $52,000. Contact: John (619) 538-1583. COLUMBIA 26 MKII. 4 sails, Johnson o.b., Digital depthsounder, Horizon VHF, fully equipped & ready to go. Good condition w/upgrades. Peninsula Marina. $7,500. Eric days (415) 367-1444; eves. (408) 425-7469. 26-FT COLUMBIA MARK 1,1963. Ready for cruising, excellent shape, 25# plow, windlass, gallows, dodger, bronze portlights, VHF, inboard dsl, 11 hp, new paint, mast & deck, remodeled interior. $18,000. (714) 661-7353, Bob.

YACHT DELIVERY U.S.C.G. Licensed Master of power and sail will deliver your yacht or commercial vessel world¬ wide for U.S. $1.00 per mile. Call or FAX Captain P.F. DeGrasse, (213) 541-2993 or FAX (213) 544-3587.

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RAWSON 30 LIVEABOARD — $13,000. Beamy fiberglass cruising sloop, built to last, good cond., see in berth G4, Corinthian YC, Tiburon. Home phone preferred (415) 334-4969; work (415) 541-1527 ask for Lee. Trade stationwagon/Cal 20/Santana 22.

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SAIL — DIVE — SEA OF CORTEZ Charter, dive equipped 40-ft sailboat in La Paz. Bareboat or Captained. Explore wrecks, caves, Sea Lion Island & beautiful Baja. Fully equipped, watermaker, freezer & compressor. From $2,100/week. Ph: (415) 365-0498 days, Iv. msg: (415) 365-5073.

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CONT'D

CATALINA 27, 1976. Well-equipped first cruiser/weekend liveaboard. 15 hp o.b. (with electric start & remote controls), 4 jibs, new rigging, VHF, depth, speed/log, self-steering, shore power. Emeryville berth. Asking $13,500. Inquire weekdays any time, (916) 452-7252. HALLBERG RASSY 31. Finest Swedish off¬ shore cruising boat. 1975. Excellent condi¬ tion. Volvo dsl. completely overhauled recently. Teak interior. Glass windshield. Good sails. Wheel, VHF, km, ds, Avon in¬ flatable, windlass. Berkeley berth. $42,000. (415) 655-9051 or 758-4180. CORONADO 30, 1972. Four sails including spinnaker, nearly new spars, 27 hp inboard eng., wheel, set-up for singlehanding. $17,500/offer. (209) 836-5947. IRWIN CITATION 30. Sloop rig, Yanmar dsl, Harken reefing system with all lines led aft. Excellent condition with many extras. Great sailing boat, valued at $32,000 but must sell. $25,000/OBO. (415) 326-5080. THE ORIGINAL OCEAN CRUISER. Westsail 32 cutter. Full keel, dsl, heavy construction. Both wheel & tiller steering. 6 sails, roller furling, 6-pg. equipment list. $59,000. Will trade up or real estate. If you’re going, this is the boat! (408) 377-4815. ISLANDER 26. No time for sailing this beauty with inboard eng., VHF, compass, ds, km, 2 jibs, jfffy reefing, neto upholstery, press, water, plus much more. Fast Bay sailor, sleeps 4, excellent condition. Qualifies as second home for tax deduction. $8,000. (408) 249-4640. OUFOUR 31, 1980. Excellent shape in and out. A very classy looking & sailing sloop. Best buy on the Bay at $28,900. (408) 727-4559. 30-FT YANKEE. Great cruise with race potential. Headfoil 2 forestay, hydroil backstay, 11 winches, 13 bags of sails, rebuilt Atomic 4 (57 hours). Also Sparkman & Stephens hull 61. 2 boats, must sell. $24,500/080. (415) 284-9094.

clossydossifieds CAL 2-27. 1978. Fully equipped racer/ cruiser in bristol condition. Brand-new run¬ ning & standing rigging, backstay adj., & epoxied/sprayed blister-free bottom. Atomic 4, VHF, ds, km, inflatable, etc. Pt. Richmond slip. $22,000. Greg (707) 838-3028 days; (707) 431-0913 eves.

WESTSAIL 32 — $25,000. Heavily built (1976) fiberglass full-keel cruising cutter. In great shape but needs some interior finish¬ ing. Strong Volvo MD3-B dsl. Nice rigging, sails, anchor gear, VHF, RDF, depth. Recent haulout (no blisters!). Must sell. $25,000/ offer. (415) 485-6890

GULF 32, 1980. Pilothouse sloop, full keel, comfortable. Teak interior. Excellent liveaboard. 32 hp dsl, VHF, fathometer, knotmeter, stereo. $44,000. (415) 845-5212, leave message.

FOR SALE. Express 27 —- 1/2 interest. Beautiful condition Actively raced. Loaded including trailer, 9 bags of sails & substantial credit on next sail purchase. $14K. 236-5424.

CATALINA 27, 1983. Excellent condition. Diesel, km, ds, VHF, autohelm. (408) 255-8395. $19,500 or take over payments.

33-FT CHEOY LEE KETCH, 1975. Year-round cruise. Liveaboard, shower, heater, Volvo dsl. $36,000. (415) 524-3065.

DUFOUR ARPEGE 30.1970. Great for Bay or ocean sailing. VHF, depth, 2 spinnakers, 3 jibs, Volvo MD-2 dsl. Just hauled. Check out this well-designed boat. $24,000/060. (408) 241-2919.

32-FT 1976 BAYLINER SAILBOAT. Garden design. Plenty of headroom. Moving sale. Call Greg at (415) 368-9266. $28,000/OBO.

MAKE YOUR DAYS! Beautiful! Roomy! Fast! Robert Perry design Sun 27. Very dry up¬ wind, handles very well, large cockpit, 6’ cabin hdrm, sleeps 5, excellent condition (must see!). $18,500/offer/trade for real estate. Brochure: 107 Smokey Hills Dr., Vallejo 94589. (707) 554-4681. Emeryville berth. 26-FT THUNOERBIRD SLOOP MAITRI. Well¬ loved & loaded with equipment. Refinished spruce mast, 2 new coats bottom & topsides. Sleeps 4. Race/cruise (Worlds will be held in the Bay next year). Asking $6,000. Peter (415) 327-1569. CAL 2-27, 1976. Excellent condition & extra clean. Hood seafurler, VHF, knot, compass, spinnaker gear, Atomic 4, new standing rig¬ ging, teak interior & many extras. $19,500. Call John, hm: (415) 583-7599; wk: (415) 340-7477. Wm. ATKINS ERIC, JR. 26-ft double-ender, well-built & maintained. 1936. Fun & sturdy. Bay & coastal cruiser. Diesel, cutter rigged, character boat. Any & all offers considered. John, (415) 731-7854.

MARINER 31 F/G CRUISING KETCH. Historic 1st Woman Transpacific crossing. Recent renovations. New decks, tanks, in¬ terior, roller furler, Perkins 4-107, excellent liveaboard. $34,500/offer. 26-ft oceanworthy Cheoy LSe Friscq Flyer, f/g, teak decks, rebuilt Volvo dsl, 4 sails. $11,950. (415) 331-4535. CARTER 30, 1975. Limited production racer/cruiser by Dick Carter. Electronics in¬ clude windspeed/direction, boat speed, depth, VHF, loran, AM-FM cassette stereo. 7 sails, full spinnaker gear, hyraulic backstay, Yanmar dsl, excl. cond. Must see (and sail) to appreciate. $33,000. (707) 224-3123. 1981 CATALINA 27. For the discriminating buyer! Traditional interior, Atomic 4 i.b„ numerous amenities, protected upwind Coyote Pt. berth combine to make this an ex¬ ceptional value at $19,500. Call (415) 321-1603 or (408) 447-0109 for a complete inventory list. Trades considered. ALAJUELA 33 CUTTER. Eight sails, Bukh dsl, ICOM, Autohelm, Nakamichi stereo, Cold Machine, etc. A proven bluewater boat with an extensive equipment list. This boat is ready to.go cruising now! $66,500. Ken, (714) 241-5280 days; (213) 438-5316 hm.

Over 20 boats to trade for real estate. Consider Land — Residential — Income, etc. Sample boats: COL. 24', Newport 28’, Ericson 39', Custom 52’ or Custom 65' oil barge in Alaska. Call Sam, (415) 865-1035.

27- FT ALBIN VEGA. Must sell! Recent haulout and survey. Very solid. Many extras. $11,000/B.0. 236-5105. 28- FT ISLANDER. Atomic 4 gas engine., wheel, roller furling, beautiful teak interior, sleeps 6, excellent condition, Alameda. (702) 882-5017. $22,500. ISLANDER 28 BAHAMA, 1981. Yanmar dsl eng., 5 sails, main, jibs 90%, 110%, 150%, North gennaker, autopilot, km, ds, ST winches, man-overboard pole, custom cabinets, built-in gauges & VHF. Adj. backstay, sun awning, cockpit table, windvane, Danforth anchor & rode. Teak & holly sole. Excellent condition. $26,000/OBO. (415) 490-3954. FREE MAINTENANCE. Like sailing? Hate boat maintenance hassles? Experienced Bay skipper & Cal Sailing Club member/instruc¬ tor; eager & able to perform all boat maintenance in exchange for sailing privileges. Ask for Doug, 626-6650 days or 531-3014 at night.

OFFSHORE 27 CHEOY LEE. Excellent condi¬ tion Original owner, glass hull, teak decks house trim, Volvo dsl with 648 hours, wooded bare & varnished 6/88. Excellent Bay boat. Price negotiable to sell. Phone (415) 383-3212.

SANTANA 22 FLEET

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CAL 28 IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION. Sleeps 6. Liveaboard, ideal for coastal cruising. New main, boat cover, 3 headsails, 7 winches, Atomic 4, 70 hours only. Seaworthy & very clean. $12,500. (415) 331-5927.

Trade Land — Homes — Income, etc. Some free and clear in CA, OR, WA, AZ, Mexico & others. Want boats 25’-100+'. (415) 865-1035, Ask for Sam.

WOODWORKING 12’Dinghies $1,695 Schoonmakers

KARMAC 30. Steel sloop, teak interior, Yan¬ mar, Tanbark sails, Awlgrip, Devoe bottom, Dutch design, Canadian factory built. A very pretty offshore boat available for 1/2 of replacement cost. Photo avail., must see. (206) 676-1234. 2518 Williams, Bellingham, WA 98225.

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NOR’SEA 27. Completely proven bluewater classic. Custom rig & interior, 6 sails, 5 an¬ chors, 250' chain, Ham, VHF, RDF, EPIRB, liferaft, etc., etc. & it's absolutely beautiful! A great value at $27,000. Leo (415) 528-4727.

Steve Jones (415)332-2500

MARITIME ATTORNEY Resolving Warranty, purchase/sale charter, construction, repair, collision, injury and lien prob¬ lems for over 21 years. Practical experience counts; Over 37 years of Bay/ocean racing and cruising! William E. Vaughan, Esq., 17 Embarcadero Cove, Oakland. (415) 532-1786.

BALTIC YACHT SERVICE Quality wood care • Varnish • Refinishing • Decks Compound • Wax • Oiling • Cleaning • Maintenance Programs. Fast • Reasonable Rates (415) 759-6389

Join one of the most active sailing associations in the Bay Area. Largest one-design fleet racing in YRA! Lots of cruises, seminars, social events, etc. For fleet information, call (415) 383-8397, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. • Painting &. Refinishing JOURNEYMEN * Pr0,:> and ®ha** Work • Gel Coat/Blister Repair . Conplcte Mobile shop . * Mechanical Repairs • Fiberglass Repair The comprehensive yacht * Interior Design & Fabrication service at a substantial savings & Repair • Marine Wiring (415) 461-5487 • Maintenance Contracts

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72K “OFFERS ACCEPTED". '81 Niagra 35 New rigging, excellent sails. Loaded with all the right stuff. Large head, galley & refrig. A dream to sail. Best boat in Bay. Liveaboard? Eves. (415) 828-4880.

dossy dossif ieds PETERSON 44, CUTTER RIG. Swift, proven sailer, cruise ready. 58 hp new engine, hot water, refrig., freezer, long equipment list, excellently maintained. Ideal liveaboard. Call Ulf Kent, (415) 646-4470 wk; (707) 642-9714 hm; Lynn Kent (707) 642-4744.

“REASONABLE” OFFERS ACCEPTED. Beautiful C&C 26. 5 sails, 2 like new, diesel, nice galley, standing headroom, lots of stowage, fast pocket cruiser. Large head. Liveaboard? Eves. (415) 828-4880. Epoxy bottom.

CATALINA 27, 1980. Excellent condition. Atomic 4 inboard. Deluxe North Star sails: main, (3) jibs, spinnaker. Racing rigging. Ds, VHF, 110 AC, knotmeter, compass, full galley, new upholstery, Barient winches. Many extras. $19,600. (415) 594-1180 days; (415) 593-1277 eves/weekends. 33 VANGUARD SLOOP. Excellent offshore capabilities. Rhodes design, Pearson built. Dry, safe & easy to handle, must sell now. $20,000/ONO. Call Dan at (415) 461-5740.

SANTA 35. New hull bottom due to shipping damage, entire boat (mast, etc.) recondi¬ tioned. Fully TransPac equipped. By owner. $47,000. (415) 886-8733; (602) 891-5484; (602) 844-1211. I

WESTSAIL 32. Built by South Coast Marine, launched 6/85. SST bowsprit, Boomkin Harken traveler/rollerfurl (new), refrig., depth speed, VHF windlass, Aries (boxed), batt. charger, Yanmar 3-cyl. & more. 90K in¬ vested. Must see to appreciate. $59,000/QBO. Alex, (415) 368-5488.

36 FEET TO 45 FEET

CARIBE 41. An elegant sailboat. 1st Perry design after the Valiant. 34' LWL, 12’ beam, 6' draft. Cutter rig. Tri-cabin. Perkins dsl. Full canvas. Refrigeration. Fireplace. 150 water. 90 fuel. Reduced to $97,000. Must see. (818) 794-1558 Iv. msg; (805) 984-0463 weekends.

HARD TIMES IN PANAMA. CT-41 KETCH.

43-FT CENTER COCKPIT CUTTER. Bristol

World class bluewater cruising sailboat w/Farymann dsl. Fully outfitted for cruising. $55,000. Liveaboard at Panama Canal YC. while inspecting her. Free airfare for pur¬ chaser. Box 845, APO Miami 34002.

condition, built '86 to go anywhere, fully equipped for world-wide cruising. Too much to list. 72 hp Mercedes dsl. Must see, orig. owner. One time opportunity, now no broker, save. (213) 519-1697.

43-FT CHEOY LEE MOTORSAILER. Cutter ISLANDER 37. Good condition. 30 hp Gray gas engine, new in 78. Spinnaker gear, club jib, RDF, VHF. $24,900.435-0811; 453-9254

41-FT RHODES BOUNTY YAWL. Strong & fast world cruiser, pristine condition, custom interior, sea-going galley, 14 sails, autopilot, windvane, depthsounder, knotmeter, sumlog, VHF. dinghy, excellent ground tackle $54,500. (805) 984-6561.

rig. 120 hp dsl. Many custom features, roller furling main & jib & club jib. Raytheon radar & alarm, VHF, SatNav, autopilot, Brooks, Gatehouse instruments. Holding, Plate, refrigeration, CNG gas. Great liveaboard. (415) 457-8731. $156,000.

1978 ISLANDER FREEPORT 41. Factory kit boat w/hull, deck, exterior teak trim, win¬ dows, fuel & water tanks, masts, chainplates, s/s cable for stays, factory cradle, plus much more. Asking $30,000. (415) 524-2861 or (415) 894-3158.

CHEOY LEE LUDERS 36,1976. Must sell for

OLSON

move to larger boat. Lots of gear: dodger, Volvo dsl, awning, Loran, AP, electroguard, windlass, ground tackle, VHF, fathometer. New epoxy bottom and more. Lovingly main¬ tained. Consider trade. Reduced to $45,000. Jim, (415) 331-2309.

equipped. $129,000/080. Ask for Lou at (916) 753-9331.

KETTENBURG 43 SPREE. Aluminum, fast, strong, comfortable, gracious, beautiful. Low maintenance. South Pacific vet, equipped. Ready for this? $51,000. (415) 769-6516. ISLANDER FREEPORT 41, 1981. Commis¬ sioned in 1984. Pathfinder 85 hp dsl, radar & loran, 2 heads/showers, full galley, large salon, 6'4” hdrm, teak interior, dinghy on davits, autopilot, dodger. A perfect liveaboard in excellent condition. Include 7 mos. prepaid slip fees at Pier 39. $103,000. Matt (415) 986-3666. “DEFIANCE” 40-FT NEW ZEALAND SLOOP. Built 1982, Lidgard Ltd. New rig, bottom & topsides 1985-86. 16 sails. B&G 190, Loran SSB, etc. Speed of a one ton, interior of a Beneteau. Sleeps 6. $65,000. (415) 421-0174.

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ISLANDER 37-FT PILOTHOUSE. Beautifully maintained, great cruise, liveaboard, roller furl main & genoa, club staysail, 75 hp Volvo, 3 kw dsl gen., wheel steer inside & out, davited sailing dinghy w/2 hp o.b., autopilot w/remote. Loran, km, log, ds, wind S&D, refrigerator-freezer, microwave, h/c press, water, shower, stereo, TV. Sausalito berth. $52,000/OBO. Days (415) 256-3075 eves. (415) 332-2472.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38 TRADITIONAL CUT¬ TER. Great condition. Perkins 4-154 dsl, self¬ tailing Barients, frig., heater, dodger, etc. Perfect liveaboard. $76,500. Call anytime, leave message. (415) 388-5300. This beautiful vessel is priced to sell fast. No brokers please.

NEWPORT 41-FT. Sloop rig, new everything, great liveaboard/ready cruiser, sleeps 7, up¬ wind berth, much loved, 2nd owner, full sail inventory/spinnaker, Westerbeke dsl., dsl. heater, refrig., loran/wind, chain, etc. $72,500. (707) 448-2488.

All marine woodwork. Full shop and mobile services. Dry Rot, Planking, Spars, Interiors Designed & Built. 453-5051

ISLANDER 36. Ready to cruise the Pacific or the Bay. Over $20K in extra gear including: vane, dodger, 8 sails, ham rig, etc., etc. This boat is strong & comfortable. Asking $45K. Call (408) 423-4230. 1983 CATALINA 38’. Excellent condition, well-maintained, well-outfitted, 3 jibs (110, 130, 150), 2 spinnakers (3/4, 1%), roller furling dual-purpose headfoil, VHF, Signet 2000, dsl, self-tailing winches, pedestal steering, take over ownership & payments on $62,750 loan upon qualification, serious buyers only please, no brokers, boat located at South Beach Harbor, currently in excellent charter program. (415) 969-3488. 41-FT ROUND STERN PILOT BOAT. Ready to go to Alaska, Mexico or Delta! Built in 1934 to tugboat scantlings. Complete flybridge. Gorgeous interior with complete galley, head & sleeping quarters. New paint & varnish in¬ side & out. Immaculate Grey Marine dsl 671 with only 150 hours since complete rebuild. Autopilot, electronics, 600 gallon fuel capaci¬ ty. 200 gallon water capacity. Covered Alameda berth. Must see! Asking $45,000. Fred (415) 522-2705.

FANTASIA 35, 1978. Excellent condition, great cruising or liveaboard, cutter rigged, 35 hp dsl, 125 gals fuel, 215 gals water, full dodger, liferaft w/motor, centercockpit, VHF, RDF, depthsounder, knotlog & more. Must sell. $75,000/080. (415) 921-2107. DAMAGED 1972 ISLANDER FREEPORT. 40 motorsailer. Excellent fixer-upper (liveabord). Vessel will be sold in where-is, as-is condition. $39,500. Phone (916) 288-3212. NEWPORTER 40. Gaff-rigged ketch. steering station, 59 hp Ford-Osco dsl. VHF, fatho., h/c pressure water, Owner may finance. $35,000/8.0. 655-4564.

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FAIR WEATHER MARINER 39.123K. Brandnew. Performance Robert Perry demo. Fan¬ tastic distress price! New, perfect, every op¬ tion, better than Christian, Passport. Trade your 30-footer (to $20K). The builder sells same boat at $147K. Slip included. Bill, (415) 594-8924; 321-0982.

WIND & WAVE SCHOOL OF SAILING — RENT ALLIII Enjoy a beautiful day on the Bay on a 32-ft sloop. Sailing lessons, skippered rentals, bareboat rentals & catered cruises. For more info, call (707) 745-4271.

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Serving all Bay and Delta Areas JOHN HALLANDER P.E. • Sail and Power • Fiberglass, wood, metal • 40 years experience • Free phone consultation • No travel charge • 24-hr. service avail. Pt. Richmond (415) 237-8412 Bethel Island (415) 684-2698

Decks, hatches, interiors. Laminated and steam bent shapes. All marine woodworking. Scott Ray, (415) 488-0716 page 191

NEW 38-FT DOWNEASTER. All fiberglass — built for serious cruising. Hull, deck, liner, tanks & ballast. Save $$$'s and finish yourself or help available. In fully equipped Newport Beach boatyard. $22,000 cash or terms. Must sell. Days (714) 730-5363 or eves. (714) 832-7729.

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36-FT TO 45-FT - CONT'D

36-FT STEVEN’S DESIGNED NOVA SCOTIA

CAL 39. Excellent condition, well-equipped,

Custom Ketch, sleek & fast. Teak interior, oak keel, alum, rigging, 6,000 Cl ballast. Sleeps 4, not suitable for liveaboard. Ap¬ praised at $36,000. Will sell for $26,000. To see call Barbara (916) 756-1657.

Perkins 40 dsl, recent survey. $78,500. See by appointment in Alameda. Call Jack (415) 656-5461 or Wil (415) 838-9878.

CSY 44-FT CUTTER, 1978. One owner has lived aboard for 10 years. 1988 survey avail. Extensive spare parts, sails, 2 autopilots & Sailomat. $125,000 or would considerxeal estate trade. Yacht now in DSVI. Contact Roger, 885-1308.

ERICSON 39-FT, 1971. Flush deck, new standing rigging, mast step, Force 10 cabin heater, other new additions, improvements. 9 sails, 17 winches. Beautiful, fast & roomy. $49,000/OBO or trade down to small cruising sailboat 30 -35’. (209) 465-5557. 38-FT DOWNEASTERN — CUTTER RIGGED. Ready for cruising & in excellent cond. Something Special is experienced & ready to cruise or liveaboard. Recent survey. This is a great buy at $64,900. Call Warren, days (408) 372-1335.

ISLANDER 36. Custom rigged. Perkins dsl., 45 gal. fuel, 120 gal. h/c water, shower, auto, battery charger, VHF, RDF, depthsounder, Monel muffler, insulated icebox, soundinsulated engine compartment, Zodiac. Never raced. No blisters. (415) 696-4613; (408) 867-9351. UNION 36. Beautiful, powerful 1984 cutter. Sleeps 7, galley, head. Dependable Perkins 4-108 auxiliary. Instruments plus Loran, EPIRB, stereo, dinghy with motor, cruising radial headsail, etc. Excellent condition. $74,500. Consider smaller boat in part or equity trade. (707) 746-6770.

FREEDOM 36, 1988. Avon inflatable, microwave, washer/dryer combo, VHF, cassette stereo, phone connections. $115K. Slip B-14, Pillow Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay, CA or (415) 340-5080 (dial all digits), listen for tone, enter your # on push button phone — hang up. POWERFUL CLASSIC P.H. MOTORSAILER, 43-FT. 135 hp Perkins dsl, low hours, beautiful interior, 4 sails, teak deck, dual steering, electronics, possible liveaboard berth. $39,900. Owner financing, $9,000 down. 873-8008 evenings.

38-FT SCHOONER. Alden Malabar design built by Stone Boatyard in 1936. Fir on oak, heavy construction. Perkins dsl, good sails, new canvas. Beautiful interior. Ds, knot, VHF. Needs exterior varnish & cosmetics. A beautiful, seaworthy cruiser or liveaboard. $27,500/B,0. 332-9231, message anytime.

CLASSY 36-FT ENGLISH-BUILT WOOD SLOOP looking for a new owner. I’m wellmaintained, but looking for new horizons. My features: mahogany planked oak frames, teak deck, full keel & spruce mast. Recent upgrades include new mast & rigging, refit including new 30 hp dsl, cabin top, chainplates, new interior, new galley, new prop, new self-bailer, new radio, new bat¬ teries, new Haylon extinguisher & recent survey. I am stable & forgiving. $38,000. (408) 293-6722.

1981 TAYANA 37. Priced to sell! Lovingly maintained in excellent condition. Cutter rig, 4 sails, Perkins 4-108. Datamarine in¬ struments includ: kl, ds, wind machine, VHF; teak decks, teak coach roof, teak cockpit. Cold Machine, propane oven & much more. Built for 2 to liveaboard &/or cruise. Call for complete equipment list & recently reduced price. Buy from owner & save broker fees. Bob Kleckner, days (415) 442-2519; eves. (415) 589-7560. CHEOY LEE 44’ MID-SHIpItETCH. Leuders design, 1977. Beautiful & spacious. Perkins 50 hp dsl. Perfect for cruising or liveaboard. 2 heads, 2 showers, 2 refrigerators, microwave, stereo, full galley, BBQ, teak interior & teak decks, dinghy on davits. Terms: $103,000. Call (415) 331-5509. 1984 CATALINA 36-FT. Monterey slip. Can qualify as a second (or first!) home. Com¬ plete witji CNG stove & telephone. VHF, ds, ws, wd, epoxy bottom, black anodized mast, covers, custom dodger, all for $63,000/offer. Eves. (408) 479-9861 or (408) 476-2039.

MONK 43-FT DOUBLE-ENDED CUTTER. Mahogany on oak, Perkins 4-108 dsl, windvane, refrigeration, hot shower, propane stove, 5 sails, VHF, depth recorder, EPIRB, Zodiac, o.b. $36,000. Trade for land. Boat in Hawaii. Write; Lesser, Box 1141, Kaneohe, HI 96744.

“ENDURANCE” 39-FT WESTSAIL. 1981, beautiful Robert Perry design. Comfortable cruiser, strongly built & rigged. Fully in¬ sulated, great liveaboard. Alaska storm tested. Radar, loran, dodger, 6 sails, Yanmar 33. $75,000. To view, (206) 282-0712. Owner, (208) 232-7236. 1987 UNION 36 FAIRLY NEW 11/87. Ex¬ cellent condition, teak decks, teak interior, h/c pressure water, stainless propane stove, kerosene cabin heater, refrigerator/freezer, epoxy bottom, antifouling paint, microwave, deepsounder, knotmeter, VHF radio, battery charger & much more. Call for complete list. Perkins eng. Only 40 hrs (new). Robert Perry design. Must sell. $71,950. (415) 873-2577.

FOR SALE;. A beautiful 1983 Morgan 383 (38'). F&t, dry, stable, safe & comfortable with a dodger & cockpit weather canvas. Perkins 4-108M with oil sump pump. 3-burner propane stove with oven. Fuel tank 40 gal., 90 gal water tanks. Hot/cold pressure water. Big shower in head. Holding tank with Y-valve. Fresh bottom job 6/88. Teak trim done in 7/88. Asking $79,000/OBO. Call (408) 725-3406 days or leave recorder message at (408) 251 -9009.

FORCED SALE: FORMOSA 36 KETCH. 81, excellent condition w/new LPU paint, full in¬ struments, dsl, sailing dinghy. Stiff cruiser w/extended range. Huge cabin, 6' hdrm x 11 ’ beam, LPG range/oven makes perfect liveaboard. $43,000/B.0. (415) 548-1845. ALAJUELA 38,1976, HULL 33. Factory com¬

FARALLON CLIPPER 38-FT. 1961 classic

pleted. Proven cruiser/liveaboard (over 15,000 miles). Original owners, lived aboard 9 years. Dry/weather boat. Only 1700 hours on engine. Inventory/particulars on request. Surveyed $80,000. Asking $70,000. B-6, Emery Cove Marina, Emeryville.

racer-cruiser in beautiful condition. TransPac & Delta veteran. Dsl, autopilot, 8 bags of sails, dinghy w/o.b., full covers. They don’t build them like this anymore! For details & pictures, call Terry: (415) 877-5756 wk; (415) 3214943 home.

1985 CATALINA 36 PROMISE. Beautiful con¬ dition. VHF, ds/km, refrigeration, CNG, Force 10 heater, battery charger, dodger, roller furling, Lewmar 48 primarys & much more. Asking $61,000. (408) 683-4052.

41-FT MORGAN 0.1. KETCH. Liveaboard/ cruiser. Washer/dryer, microwave, TV, stereo, fireplace, 2 refrigeration systems, 2 heads, propane heaters, new upholstery, center cockpit has full canvas enclosure, Combi system, roller furling jib, sailing dinghy on davits. (415) 522-6945. $74,500.

40-FT CHALLENGER FIBERGLASS KETCH. Superb liveaboard/cruiser. H/C pressure water with shower. (2) Norcold ref/fzrs, pro¬ pane stove, fireplace, aft stateroom, 6'4" headroom, sleeps 7. Perkins dsl, RVG vane, Benmar ap with remote. Onan generator, Avon 6-man liferaft, seif-tailing winches, EPIRB, windlass, full ground tackle, 7 sails, VHF, RDF, Signets + much more. New AwIGrip hull paint, gelcoat topsides. New headliner, cushions, curtains, sailcovers, etc. Mint inside & out. Documented. South Pacific veteran. Berthed Emeryville. New on market. (415) 792-2537.

43-FT CUSTOM BUILT, NEW ZEALAND, center cockpit, auxiliary ketch, 1964, ’87 refit including LPU finish hull & decks, full canvas boat cover. $85,000/080. Call Rob at 1 -(916) 371-1556 or 484-6105 for survey & history.

46 FEET AND OVER

“ANNA”; DISTRESS SALE. Below appraised price. 65-ft Alderr ketch, 1926. New: stainless & brass rigging, custom oak & mahog. interior, teak deck, full AC/DC pro¬ pane galley, microwave, wood stove, Perkins dsl. See. Make bid. Negotiate terms. Marian Shanks, mess. (415) 298-3073 or 754-7989. 1983 FORCE 50 P.H. KETCH. Washer & dryer, dive compressor, Combi instruments, radar, watermaker, autopilot, 6 kw inverters, microwave, 450 fuel, 340 water. $160,000. Assume $97,500 at 10'/i% amortized 15 years. Owner may take part down & trade for ? (619) 291-4983.

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MAHINA FEATURES:

Compass adjusting services for any vessel with a compass. Deviations checked and compensated on all appropriate headings. Over 25 years serv¬ ing the yachting and shipping industry, naval and Coast Guard vessels. Day (415) 439-5658 Night (415) 432-4203

Sail Repair/Maintenance Seminar, Carol Hasse & Staff, Nov. 5 & 6. Bareboat in Tahiti at Thanksgiving. Big Discount before end of August sign-up. Contact us for details: Mahina Cruising Services, P.O. Box 10567, Bainbridge Is., WA 98110 (206) 842-6834

RICK’S DIVING SERVICE (415) 454-8119 San Rafael, CA Hull Cleaning: inspect & clean hull, keel & rudder, strut, prop, shaft, waterline & zinc. • Clear knot meters & through hull. • Zinc replacement • Search & recovery.

TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Unlimited sailing on the Bay & Delta on boats up to 31’ for $158 per month. Call for details. Ask for Paulina. TRADEWINDS SAILING CLUB (916) 483-2780

Kelly/McCall Studio UNIQUE DESIGNS • HAND LETTERING • IN/OUT WATER POLYURETHANE PAINTS • RACING GRAPHICS AND STRIPES (415) 763-2379 (415) 849-9131

WOODEN BOAT REPAIR Journeyman Boatwright Structural Repair — Interiors — Traditional Rigging Thomas, (415) 391-7937

LUXURIOUS CRUISING OF THE GREAT S.F. BAY 4-hour cruises — enjoy all major Bay perspectives. Parties — Weddings — Reunions — Or just a good time? Use your imagination and create an unforgettable party aboard the 75’ yacht Argo. Use your favorite caterer or let us do it for you. (415) 563-0816 message; (415) 321-3344.

ION ELECTRONICS, FRIENDLY SERVICES All electronics on board Service, Sale & Installation. Call anytime for Free Estimate & Consulting. Guaranteed the Best Electronic Service at Economy Rates. Weekends Available. Phone (415) 948-6730. page 192

46-FT & OVER - CONT'D

classy classifieds 140-FT (LOA) SAILING SHIP for the adven¬ turesome ancient mariner. Dutch built, 1903, well-maintained, black iron Baltic ketch w/3,000 sq.ft, sail. Approx. 1,200 sq.ft, down below. Two salons, 2 wood-burning stove, 6 staterooms, wheelhouse, shop. Sail-ready w/extensive inventory. Leaving Bay Area. $160,000. (415) 331-2044. C&C LANDFALL 48. This pilothouse cutter with inside steering was commissioned in 1985 and is equipped for fast, safe and com¬ fortable cruising. Navigation aids include radar, loran, SatNav, autopilot and SSB. Depth & knotlog at both steering stations. 7.5 kw generator powers creature comforts in galley as well as battery charger and watermaker. Lots of ground tackle and electric windlass. Dinghy with o.b. and liferaft with spares for most systems puts this yacht in the "ready to go" category. I want offers! (415) 521-9371 eves.

DINGHIES, LIFERAFTS & ROWBOATS

18-FT SOL CAT. Trailer, sails like new, twin trapeze w/adjmt., boom vang, 2 wetsuits (one well used, other like new), very nice condi¬ tion: $1,850. (415) 974-1515, ask for Brian. 40-FT TRI. Professionally built. Recently

LIFERAFT FOR SALE OR FOR RENT (long¬ term or short-term): Valise, E-pack, double floor, 4-man or 6-man, new 83/84, current certification. (415) 931-4384.

FATTY KNEES SAILING/ROWING — 8-FT. 1983. Very little use. In great condition. $800. (415) 667-7565 days; (415) 482-4463 eves. & weekends.

completely refurbished. New rigging, sails, new 25 hp Universal dsl eng., paint, upholstery, 3-way refrigeration, windvane, windlass, plus much more. Very handsome, light & fast. Ready for cruising. (505) 258-3527.

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SEA WIND 24 CATAMARAN. Fun, fast 16-ft wide. 100%+ flotation. Fully rigged for off¬ shore, complete electronics, trailer included. Call Michael, (415) 524-3903 days.

FERRO KETCH. New engine, 130 hp Perkins,

CLASSIC 18-FT LAPSTRAKE MAHOGANY

34-FT CATAMARAN. Alaska-Mexico vet.

hydraulic steering and more. 60x16x7. Needs some work. Free & clear. Documented. Owner desires trade down or property trade. (415) 282-9609.

rowing whaleboat. Aeolus built, Piantedosi oars w/sliding seat. Fast, stable & fun. (415) 331-6199. $1,500.

Hasler Chinese lug rig, easily handled. West epoxy-ply/glass construction. Sleeps 4-7. Spacious deck & cockpit. Beachable, de¬ mountable. 10 hp Honda o.b. Good storage & carrying capacity. Practical Bay or ocean cruiser. Gary, (415) 331-2910.

14’ beam, large salon, 2 heads. ^V^” strip plank mahogany hull. 5 bags working sails, complete ground tackle, Loran C, 90 hp Iron Wind. Recent survey. Fair market value $125K. Asking $75K. (503) 761-2933.

ROWING SHELL. Laser shell. Used only a few times. Excellent condition. $800/best of¬ fer. Contact Ann at (415) 865-8041.

1969, GRAND BANKS. Recent haulout, paint & caulking, twin dsl engines, 7.5 kw dsl generator, DCFB, RDF, ds, VHF, radar, hailer, f/g dinghy w/2 hp Honda, ap, full canvas & more. Call Doc, message phone (209) 941-8975. $85,000 firm. STEPHENS 45-FT, 1949. Twin Chrysler gas, classic, ref., sleeps 6, 4-burner stove/oven, great liveaboard. Will trade for 38'-up f/g cruise sailboat or $45,000/B.0. Clean survey & insured. (415) 322-4100, ext. 264 days or (408) 723-1986 eves.

PIVER DOUBLE A 31-FT TRIMARAN. In ex¬ cellent condition. $25,000/OBO. 458-0900. Ask for Dio.

4-MAN TOYO LIFERAFT. Ballasted dbl. floor, canopy, raincatcher, etc., with ocean survival pack. New in 1987: $1,800. EPIRB, Haloteck SRB-100, ocean model: $99. Sony ICF 2002 shortwave MV, LW & FM receiver: $145. (415) 237-9964.

57-FT LOA KETCH. Center cockpit aft cabin,

42-FT,

40-FT HOUSEBOAT. Two staterooms, fireplace, head w/shower, hot water, full galley. Navy built wood hull, good condition, needs work topsides. No engine. Comfortable liveaboard. On San Rafael Canal. Make offer. 456-8179. LIVEABOARD 30-FT CUSTOM WOOD POWER CRUISER. No motor. Extremely comfortable & great space/storage. Shorepower, frig., h&c water, water heater, shower, galley. Full canvas cover. Built 1931. Classic, beautiful yacht. Good condition. Great for Delta living. $5,000. (415) 939-7919.

4-MAN LOW PROFILE CANNISTER LIFERAFT for rent. Call 233-5324.

PARTNERSHIP POWER / HOUSEBOATS

10-FT FIBERGLASS DINGHY. 2.7 Cruise’n KETTENBURG 50-FT SLOOP. A meticulously -maintained & elegant California classic. U.S. built in 1963 of mahogany on oak. Isuzu dsl, new wiring/batteries, new boat cover. Ready for offshore cruising or liveaboard. Documented for charter. $93,000. Trades considered. (415) 521-8692.

Carry: $1,000. 13-ft Cyclone sailboat with trailer: $1,000. (415) 837-0416. 8-FT SAILING DINGHY. Fiberglass lapstrake with teak trim. One year old. Alum, spars, teak centerboard & rudder, foam flotation. Great condition. $900. (209) 369-2815 or (209) 772-1278.

54-FT FAST CRUISING SLOOP. Sparkman & Stephens performance cruiser. Strong, sleek aluminum built, fine teak/mahogany interior. All Barients including grinders. Over 20 sails. New Signet top-of-line instruments. Private aft owner’s cabin, main cabin, guest cabin, two heads. Location MDR. (213) 931-0034.

57 LOA KETCH. Custom. Nervi-diagonal steel frames. Proven 30,000 miles. Hurricane tested. Safest. Super equipped. Send SASE to P.O. Box 7088, Chula Vista, CA 92012 or call (619) 259-8744 for info. Trade considered, partial financing available. Will appraise reasonable offers.

MULTIHULLS

35-FT TRIMARAN (PIVER). Live your dream! Cruised Pacific, somewhat neglected, but world cruise potential. Move aboard now, leave by winter. Sacrifice: $7,500/partial trades considered. (Owner cruising identical sistership.) Message (213) 305-7090.

SEA OF CORTEZ SAILING $1,000/June thru Oct. $1,250/Nov. thru May. Ericson 35’. Sleeps 6, fully equipped. Bareboat (can be crewed). Peter Knight, (916) 441-5058.

48-FT ALL STEEL HOUSEBOAT. Cruise the Delta or liveaboard in Sausalito. Low maintenance water borne home. 10x20’ wood panelled living room-galley. Separate queen bed compartment. Fully equipped. DAF dsl eng. Immaculate. Must sell. $64,000/080. (415) 775-5757.

38-FT STEVENS SPORTSFISHER TRI¬ CABIN. Galley, 2 heads, separate sleeping quarters, sleeps 6. Twin Chryslers, autopilot, liveaboard, fighting chairs. Job transfer forces sale. $39,000. Consider trade for equity. (415) 687-0969.

1978 ISLANDER FREEPORT 41. factory kit boat, ideal for liveaboard. Partially finished interior can be customized to suit your needs. Asking $30,000. (415) 524-2861 or (415) 894-3158.

OWN — DON’T RENT!!! 1/6 partner/owner wanted for 38’ sloop in St. Thomas, USVI. 2 months sailing per year for approx. $12,000 down and $150 per month. Call (916) 477-0151 eves, for details. CRUISING PARTNERSHIPS. $6,900 lets you cruise-drive 43’ motorsailer slowly around the world in monthly installments. Bay sail¬ ing now. 873-8008 evenings.

1/3 INTEREST IN A SAN JUAN 24-FT. $1,500/OBO. Willing to spread down pay¬ ment. $120 per month covers docking & all expenses. Virtually unlimited use. New main, 2 jibs, 150, 170 and spinnaker. Excellent condition. Trailer included. (415) 675-5189 days; (415) 527-1532 eves.

45-FT BERTH IN SANTA CRUZ Available for 1988 Legend 45. Dealer demo. Charter only customer. Limited use with options. Pacific Yacht and Charters. $129,000. Call Don Wilson, (415) 522-5800.

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Main with 2 reefs, no battens, 7.9 oz. Tanbark. Staysail 7.9 oz. Tanbark. New 25% off — Hogin Sails (415) 523-4388.1801-D Clement Ave., Alameda, Ca 94501 ip Alameda Marina.

among Santa Barbara’s challenging Channel IslandsWoin John and Randi Sanger — couple who've sailed 30,000 mi. together — for a 3, 4, or 5-day personalized instructional cruise aboard their Valiant 40, Grebe. Tenth season. Brochure and schedule: EDUCATIONAL CRUIS¬ ING, P.O. Box 1165, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. (805) 967-4700.

YTTS DISCOUNT BROKERAGE SERVICE Yacht Title Transfer Service/ licensed, bonded. We help you sell your boat for one low fee. For information, call JIM IRWIN (415) 883-9750.

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BOAT LUMBER Custom sawed Douglas Fir, Port Orford Cedar, Red Cedar, hardwoods, etc. 1 specialize in high-grade vertical grain clears to 20'. Call eves, for prices. Jeff McMullin-Sawyer, (707) 464-8186 300 Star Trek, Crescent City, CA 95531

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FIRST CLASS. New C&C 39 berth in Alameda. 2 staterooms, each with private head. Loaded: radar, loran, roller furling, elect, windlass, etc. Full maintenance pro¬ gram keeps' yacht in bristol condition. A quality experience for those that enjoy the bestl Jim, (415) 820-3250. NORDIC FOLKBOAT 1/3 INTEREST for only $1,950. A bargain price for this surveyed, classic, restored 26-ft sloop in excellent con¬ dition, majority owner is a professional wooden boat builder, monthly cost is $54. (415) 824-6161; (415) 647-9190. MORGAN 38 PARTNERSHIP. Share in the fun of this fully equipped, top-quality Bay & bluewater cruiser, without the hassles of ownership. Comfortable, stable & exciting to sail. Pier 39 location. Fully maintained. Ex¬ perienced sailors only. $250/mo. (415) 328-2408. SAILING ON THE BAY. Cal 2-30 — 1/3 in¬ terest in a great Bay, Delta & ocean boat. Fast & seaworthy, good partners, sleeps 6, Atomic 4 inboard, knotmeter, stove, dinghy. Excellent berth at S.F. Marina Green. $3,500/ offer. (415) 848-7350 leave message. PARTNERSHIP: GLADIATOR 24 Cat’s Paw. 1985 one-design champion. Great small full keel boat. William Lapworth design. Sound, fast, easy to sail. Racing gear. Pocket cruiser. New spars & head.'Congenial group. $2,500 for half interest. (415) 453-7220. SAIL A BIG BOAT! For only $50 per month. Morgan 41 partnership available. Low equity 10K, negotiable. Berthed at Pier 39. Loads of great sailing. (415) 479-3038.

CREW. Departing mid-October. Will spend time in Mexico, Florida and to the Mediterra¬ nean. We are open for someone from here to Mexico or to Florida, or all the way. Share food expenses. Non-smoker and experience preferred. Call (415) 364-6804. NEED LADY FOR WORLD CRUISING. 56-year-old, experienced, solvent, non¬ smoking sailor looking for permanent first mate. 40' cutter, well-equipped. Reply (619) 226-1870, Box 113, 2726 Shelter Island Dr., San Diego, CA 92106. Leave Fall '88. LADY CREWMATE WANTED for extensive Caribbean cruise, 3+ years. Are you 28-35, outgoing, adventurous, know your way around a boat? Help captain now for possible October departure via Mexico. Photo/resume appreciated. P.O Box 468, Carmichael, CA 95609. FEMALE SAILING COMPANION WANTED to cruise Caribbean aboard a beautiful sloop located BVI Oct-March. Nice-looking single gent, 40’s, intelligent n/s, kind, finan. secure seeks slim, healthy, fit 25-35, female. Ex¬ perience not necessary, enthusiasm desireable. Jay Spivack, 177 Telegraph Rd„ #303, Bellingham, WA 98226. SAILING LADY WANTED. DWM needs 1st mate, 35-50, for 50-ft ketch. Desire more im¬ portant than experience, if willing to learn. I am 55, in good shape physically, mentally, financially. Weekends for a start. If things work out, back to Mexico or at least So. Calif, this fall. Boat berthed in Benicia. Respond to Stan, 230 E. 2nd St., Benicia, CA 94510. Photo appreciated. CREW POSITION WANTED. Experienced local sailor desires crew position to Hawaii, Caribbean and/or So. Pacific departing anytime in '89. Can offer boat repair skills, friendly personality, good boat handling, knowledge and share expences. Michael Heiner, (415) 499-8575.

CREW

CREW AVAILABLE. RYA Qualified, en¬ thusiastic, 21-year-old, looking for any crew/deckhand work available. Will consider any task, any location and not restricted by time. Contact: Mr. G. Allardice, 213 Chaseside, Southgate, London N14 5LE, UK. Tel: 01 449 9491. CREW AVAILABLE. Want to crew So. Pacific (N.Z.-Aust). Good health, hard-working, responsible male (26), taking year off to travel. Some sailing expedience, learn quick¬ ly. Leaving July/Aug. Martin,' San Diego. (619) 272-7157. Call eves., keep trying. CREW PERSON AVAILABLE. 25 years. Want to crew to Mexico, So. Pacific, etc. Knowledgeable sailor, bluewater experience. No time restrictions. Compatible at sea. Please contact Darrin Rath, (415) 222-4078. RETIRED PHYSICIAN with 30 years cruising/ racing experience needs crew of 2 with some experience to cruise from San DiegoAcapulco-Hawaii-San Diego, EDT November 1988, on new Morgan 43 with complete electronics. References required. Contact Jerome Golden, 27496 Big Springs Ranch Road, Hemet,'CA 92344. (714) 658-4953.

SINGLE WOMAN, 42, n/s, slender, attractive, experienced sailor wants to meet caring skipper, 30's to mid-40’s with serious thoughts of cruising in 1-2 years. Until then, enjoy life together. P.O. Box 754, Suite 205, San Lorenzo, CA 94580.

FREE TO LOVING, tender, adventurous woman. One, kind, gentle, honest, romantic, sea-loving, wooden sailboat owner. Spent last 7 years rearing beautiful child. Too long since shared lives with special woman! Arms/life need filling. 2673 Flower Fields, Carlsbad, CA 92008. (619) 729-1718.

PICK YOUR FAVORITE POSITION. Busy So. Bay sailing school has the following available: Sailing Instructors; Maintenance/ Repair Person; Office Help; Sales. Flex, hours, top wages, boat use privileges, casual fun environment. Please call ASAP. 367-0850. WANTED: Experienced yacht salesperson. New and brokerage sales. Kensington Yachts, 865-1777.

NON-PROFIT

GAY YACHT CLUB. Barbary Coast Boat Club. (415) 237-1213. j/29 FLEET. Looking for some great Bay fun!! Very active one-design racing, com¬ petitive sailing. J/29's gained national popularity for responsive, fast racing and comfortable daysailing. If interested, call Fleet Captain, John (415) 381-2622. New and used boats available today.

MISCELLANEOUS

DAHON FOLDING BICYCLE. 3-spd, blue, lightweight, like new. $240 plus tax value. Asking $150. Call (415) 668-2379. 36-FT PIER 39 SLIP FOR SALE. Great loca¬ tion, parking, many amenities. $30,000/B.0. Call 981-2848.

LADY CREW WANTED FOR DAYSAILING weekends on the Bay. Skipper is in his 50’s with Richmond based Hunter 30. Call (916) 966-6473 weekdays after 4:30.

KENT PARKER

TOWNHOME i \

On the San Francisco Bay, perfect navigable embarkation to the Pacific Ocean without obstruc¬ tion of bridges. Featuring 50-foot berth and gracious contemporary townhome. Residential liv¬ ing with opportunity to just sail away. Contact Pacific Bay Real Estate, Mary Ann or Ms. Sam 521-0720

SAIL A 32 C&C The least cost access to a good sailboat is by chartering. Boat available out of Fortman Marina, Alameda. For charter by the day to experienced skippers. Call (408) 253-0357 evenings.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Marine Surveyor ConditionalA/aluation Reports • Trip Surveys Appraisal of Damage • Casualty Reports P.O. Box 2604 San Rafael, CA (415) 457-5312

PROFESSIONAL YACHT DELIVERY To ensure the safety and security of your vessel. Experienced delivery team seeks return delivery from Hawaii to west coast leaving September 1988. USA/Canada/Mexico. Reasonable rates and references. CALL JIM CONWAY, (415) 941-5614.

TREAT YOURSELF! 4-DAY BASH

SAIL HAWAII — INTERISLAND

August 19-22, cruise San Diego-Newport Beach on classic 1927 Alden yawl, crew in Regatta, join wooden boat festival activities, Character Boat Parade, sail back. Rowdy; 1st place Yesteryear Regatta 1987/1988. $325.00 inclusive. Tom, (619) 729-1718.

Individuals or groups welcome. Customized crewed charters. Sailing instruction and gourmet meals included. Take the helm or relax and be pampered. Luxurious 44’ Nordic yacht. Hot water shower. Your interests help determine anchorages. Brochure, (808) 553-5238.

SAILING INSTRUCTORS WANTED sjl IV

\ Spinnaker Sailing Club is seeking capable instructors for part-time and weekend sailing classes in San Francisco and Redwood City. C.G. License and ASA teaching credentials are desired. (415) 363-1390.

STEEL BOATBUILDING SEMINAR ’88 — AUG. 19-21 Learn how to build your own steel hull from those who make a living at the trade. Learn con¬ struction techniques, problem solving for layout work, welding techniques and tips, plan selec¬ tion and economics, and much more. To be held at Pier 66, S.F., August 19-21. For more info contact SIERRA YACHTWERKS, P.O. Box 167, Clarksburg, CA 95612. (916) 744-1211.

SAILBOAT RIDES $10/hr. per person or group rates of 6, all day $200 max. Sail S.F. Bay from Jack London Sq. aboard a new Ericson 35 yacht. Professional U.S.C.G. Lie. Captain provides an exciting sight-seeing experience — hands-on encouraged. SUNSET CHARTERS (408) 251-1931 CAPT GABE Lon Woodrum, Prop

(415) 332 5970^^^W00DRUM MARINE Competent

Specializing in interior and exterior alterations and repairs. Custom designing and construction in wood or fiberglass.

25 years experience Marine Carpentry

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clossy clossif ieds BOAT SLIP FOR RENT BY OWNER. Beautiful modern marina. Excellent location. Sunny & protected. Three minutes to Bay Bridge, super amenities. Showers, phone, laundry, parking, market, security, elect., storage box, private phone line. 45 x17' upwind. $225 per month. Call Robert Rodriquez (415) 656-2702. FREE MAINTENANCE. Like sailing? Hate boat maintenance hassles? Experienced Bay skipper & Cal Sailing Club member/instruc¬ tor: eager & able to perform all boat mainte¬ nance in exchange for sailing privileges. Ask for Doug, 626-6650 days or 531-3014 nights

USED GEAR

MONITOR SELF-STEERING VANE. New in box. Save $1,000. Includes spare part kit, wheel adaptor, spare sail. Never used. Mounting tubes uncut. $1,500. Call (415) 486-0103.

in durable brass, with 4-40 and 6-30 nonoculars. Excellent condition. $525. 479-4834.

home on 2'/z acres in Newcastle, California for a cruising, center cockpit sailboat 39’ to 45'. (916) 645-9630 eves.

HONDA 7.5 HP LONGSHAFT MOTOR in great condition. Used only in fresh water. $750 or offer. Call (707) 224-5125.

PRETEND YOU ARE ALREADY CRUISING.

CQR TYPE ANCHOR. 35-lb & 200-ft 5/8”

Highly desirable, very close in mooring available in prime Sausalito location. Private, prestigious. Great view. You can sail on & off this mooring. 500# mooring available at $75 per month. 331-0723.

BBB Chain: $250; 12-volt refrigerator unit: $300; Schaeffer rope clutcher, North lifevests, Ig. & sm. (415) 769-6956.

HQOD JIB & GENOA. Cut for Cal 35. 105% jib; luff 45.5'; leech 41.5'; foot 15.5'; 8’/2 oz. cloth. $475. 130% genoa; luff 47.0'; leech 44.0’; foot 21.75'. 8V2 oz. cloth. $850. Call Tom, (707) 525-1668 after 6 p.m.

SLIP AVAILABLE AT EMERY COVE MARINA. 45x17 feet. $225/mpnth. Call evenings (916) 756-8232.

SAN FRANCISCO — PIER 39.36-ft berth for sale. Excellent price & conditions. Prime marina location. Call Doug Gooding, days at 397-6700.

MAGNAVOX 4102 SATNAV: $1,575; ICOM IC-735 Ham radio w/AH-120 automatic tuner: $950; Suzuki 4 hp outboard: $525; all 18 mos. old. 12-ft Forespar spinnaker pole: $90. (415) 655-2735 eves.

GENOA FOR HC 38. Roller furling, Tanbark, good condition. $500. Call after 5. Tom, (415) 865-8169.

Loader 8TSR3-8000). We will pick up anywhere from San Francisco to Washing¬ ton. Call collect (206) 334-0472.

WANTED: Bianca Aphrodite 101. Call Mr. W.J. Foster, days (415) 452-1936; eves: (415) 523-8544.

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FREE MAINTENANCE. Like sailing? Hate boat maintenance hassles? Experienced Bay skipper and Cal Sailing Club member/ in¬ structor: eager and able to perform all boat maintenance in exchange for sailing privi¬ leges. Ask for Doug, 626-6650 days or 531-3014 at night. 31-FT PENNANT SLOOP, 1960. Universal dsl

TWO

SHIPMATE

3-BURNER

STOVES

w/oven. One propane & one kerosene. Both complete & in top condition. Spares include kerosene tank & parts. Propane: $450; kerosene: $300. Phone (707) 648-1793.

WANTED

case, like new: $975: Walker log MKIIIKDO: $320; Kelvin-Hughes quartz chronometer, 4.5 sec/mo: $240; Autohelm 1000: $350; Signal-flag set (40), 12x25, unused: $135. Weems-Plath hand-bearing compass, wood case: $65. (408) 249-0236.

WANTED: Monitor or Aries steering vane for 30-foot boat with wheel steering. (209) 369-2815 or (209) 772-1278.

TARTEN 37 GEAR. Aries windvane, never

EQUIPPING MY ISLANDER 36 TO CRUISE

used, 3/4 oz. tri-radial, like new; Achillies dinghy; Danforth compass; Olin flare kit; mainsail, good condition; radar reflector; brass barometer & clock. (415) 946-0776.

Need trisail, Combo radar detector, SatNav, chain/windlass, canvas sewing machine, charts to So. Cal/Mexico, CNG tank, drifter, etc. Jack, days (415) 791-8616; eves. (415) 582-1519.

“LIKE NEW” — BUT CHEAPER! Johnson 55 hp o.b. with controls, tack & speedo. Approx¬ imately 10 hours on engine. Extra prop, 6 gal. fuel tank. Must see. $1,295 firm. (707) 528-7821, 4-9 p.m., weekends.

SPARKY MARINE ELECTRONICS Electrical and electronic installations • Trouble-shooting Complete boat wiring • High energy battery charging systems Quality service • Competitive prices (415) 332-6726

‘ARGO’ 75-FT CRUISER — DAY ON THE BAY You cater or bring your own food, liquor, etc. Leo Bergman, (415) 321-3344; (415) 563-0816 message.

BAREBOAT CHARTER SANTA CRUZ 9 Yachts Available 27'-38' Reciprocal ck-out OK'd with most Bay Area charter companies. PACIFIC YACHTING (408) 476-2370

1981, 5 sails, galley, head, recently hauled, cedar/oak/bronze/spruce, sleeps 5, VHF, sounder. NY, FL, Leewards, Windwards, Belize, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama —Amiga has done it! Owners moving to 40’. Asking $15,000. (619) 463-4737.

sionally built 1973 fir over oak, Bronze fastened, sound condition. 50% ballast. 100 gal. water, 100 gal. dsl, 36 hp Volvo. 1,000 mile motor range. Reduced 7,300 to $36,000. (707) 445-2525.

1981 FORMOSA 46 (Now Kelly-Peterson). F/g, center cockpit cutter, 2 staterooms, fur¬ nace, propane, 110v-12v refrig., perfect 90 hp Ford-Lehman. Inflatable, VHF, ds, knotmeter, log. Heavy standing rigging, custom features. $99,500 value, sacrifice for $87,500. (415) 955-6317 or (415) 456-7144 eves.

JIM’S BOAT SERVICES Specializing in: • Sailing Lessons/Charters • Teak Decks, Carpentry • Rigging, Towing Jim Kennedy (415) 221-7024

CRUISER SPECIAL Going south? San Diego is your last stop before Mexico. Special rate for cruisers. 30 day maximum stay, excellent rates for longer stays. Chula Vista Marina, 550 Tidelands Ave., Chula Vista, CA 92010. (619) 691-1860.

MACHINE SHOP SERVICES Home shop (lathe, mill and light welding). Boat oriented machinist can assist you with design of your project. Reasonable prices. This is a one time ad; make note of the phone number for future needs. Rey (415) 479-4834.

EXHAUST SYSTEMS IN BERKELEY Shop fabrication. Quality materials. Bring in your original or any drawing. Wet exshange. Dry exhaust. Metal flexhose. 709 Jones St. (at 4th St.) 528-1104, Don.

SOLAR MODULES FOR ALL BOATING NEEDS

34-FT SABRE 1983 Two cabins, head. U-shaped galley: stove, icebox, refer., H/C pressure water. Great for cruising or liveaboard. Sisterships have raced under IOR & PHRF rules. Yacht is in excellent condition. Delivery to San Francisco area available. $79,500, Jack Kelly Yachts (619) 543-1316.

Never be without battery power again. Modules for every size boat from 2.2 watts to 53 watts. Also aircraft ploymer covers for glass modules. INTERNATIONAL ENERGY SUPPLY, Middle River, MD. 1-800-537-1566.

ALTERNATE — ENERGY — EQUIPMENT — EXPERTS

HUNTER LEGEND 37 Winged keel. Custom dodger. Upgraded rigging. Loran. Refrigeration. Dinghy. Four batteries with isolaters. Two anchors. BBQ. Lifesling. Oak interior. $79,500. Brisbane berth. Days (415) 324-5694; eves. (408) 446-2198.

page 195

Less than 250 hours, complete with alter¬ nator, transmission, instruments. Bristol condition! Don’t miss this one! $2,000 (916) 758-6019; (916) 422-7252.

WANTED: Trailer for Nor'Sea 27 (or E-Z

40-FT HERRESHOFF KETCH NERIA. Profes¬ SEXTANT C. PLATH. 6/30 scope, mahogany

CLUB NAUTIQUE LIFE MEMBERSHIP. One of the Bay’s best sailing schools along with a 40-boat+ charter fleet. Parlies, cruises & lots of fun! Paid $2,250. Will accept any reasonable offer. Must sell. (408) 737-2042.

VOLVO MD7A DIESEL ENGINE. 13 hp 2-cyl.

C. PLATH SEXTANT. Lighted, classic model

WANT TO TRADE (OR SELL) custom built

FOR RENT: 36' x 13' prime location slip available immediately. New Emery Cove Marina, upwind berth, close to shore. All facilities. $175/mo. Call (415) 846-4628 anytime, leave message for Bob.

SAILOMAT WINDVANE. Excellent condition, ocean proven, awesome downwind control under spinnaker, extremely sensitive in all points of wind, balanced auxiliary rudder, precision Swedish quality. Please call Javier after 7 p.m. at (415) 524-2707.

Manufacturers of Fourwinds II (12 & 24v) wind & water generators ($539-889). Hi-output alternators ($249-775). Alternator controllers ($130). Solar panels ($110-419). 5-8-10 year batteries ($290-465). We'll design the best system for your boat. Everfair Enterprises, Inc., 723 S. 21st Ave., Hollywood, FL 33020. (305) 920-3711; FAX 920-3772.

Classy Classifieds Personal Ad: $20 Business Ad: $35 Deadline: the 18th of each month prior to publication Payment must accompany ad

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SELECTED BROKERAGE 19’ HMS W. Wight Potter

ERICSON 27

1984, sleeps 5, galley, trailer, 3 sails, VHF, DF, etc. Ready for cruising. Asking $6,500

Don’t miss this one! It's in Bristol condition w/Yanmar dsl, North sails, Harken roller furler and loaded with equipment. A one-owner fresh water boat. Owner gone land cruising. Must sell! Asking $19,950, will take best offer.

CAL 24 ’63 classic from Jensen Marine. Trlr, o/b, 4 sails, gd cond, ready for summer fun. Asking $6,995.

U.S. 27 1982 Pearson, masthead sloop, Iso gelcoat, 3.5’ draft, cast iron keel, whl steer’g w/pod instru¬ ments, h&c shower, Volvo dsl, new custom-hinged maststep. Asking $25,000.

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HUNTER 30 1978, Yanmar diesel, sleeps 6, 3 sails, wheel steering, h&c water, shower. Asking $29,500.

CAPRI 25

PEARSON 303

’85, fixed keel sloop, trlr, 5hp Honda, 6 North sails, Harken blocks/cleats. Immac, ready to race/cruise. Only $13,500.

1983, Bill Shaw design. Yanmar diesel, 3 sails, sleeps 5, shower, electronics, fresh water boat. Asking $50,000.

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Sobstad Sails.115

Outboard Motor

South Beach Harbor.20

Integre Marine.204

Shop, The.119

Island Yacht Sales.43

Oyster Cove Marina.80

Spinnaker Shop, The.86

Chula Vista Marina.58

Isomat.46

Oyster Point Marina.79

Sports Cruiser ‘Argo’.84

Club Nautique .33

Johnson-Hicks.34

Pacific Coast Canvas.38

Starbuck Canvas Works.69

Cruising World

Jones, Steve, Woodworking

.128

Paradise Yacht Charters.128

Star Marine Electronics.38 Stockdale Marine &

City Yachts.208

Allstate Insurance.151

Sea of Cortez Yacht Charters . 74

O'Neills Yacht Center.44

All west Marine Safety, Inc. ... 151

Yachts.10.11

Jonsson, Arne. Boatbuilder ... I 18

Parker, Kermit, Yacht Sales . . 206

Alpha Marine Systems.38

Curran, Steve, Yacht Sales ... 196

Kappas Marina .78

Passage Yachts.4,5,7

Anchorage Brokerage

Sparcraft

.46

Navigation Center

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D’Anna Sailing Co.2

Kensington Yachts.36

PelaFoam.129

& Consultants.51

Dickerson, R.E., Insurance ... 145

Kenyon Sparcraft.46

Peninsula Marina.77

Sunset Yachts.16,17

Antioch, City of.145

Detco Marine.145

Klotz, Taylor.69

Peninsula Marine Services.35

Sutter Sails.52

Armchair Sailor, The

Stone Boat Yard.45

.81

Downwind Designs.129

KVH Industries.40

Perkins Power West.66

Svendsen's Boat Works.32

B. Axelrod & Co.145

Downwind Marine.76

Lam Sails.151

Pettit Paints.64,85

Swedish Yachts of

Bailiwick.56,151

Doyle Sails.67

Lampe & Martin.204

Pineapple Sails.

North America.198

Bald Eagle Enterprises.62

Dunne, Michael F., Insurance . . 83

Landfall Marine.14

Pioneer & Co.70

Tatoosh Marine ..12 Thomson, Charles

Ballenger Spars.72

Eagle Yacht Sales .18

Lanocote.58

Pitchometer.74

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Edge water Yacht Sales.202

Larsen Sails.31

Proper-Tighe Marine

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Yachts Ltd.56.57

Barnacle Buster.104,105

Edinger Marine Services.151

Leading Edge Sails.83

PVC Boat Ladders .185

T.N.E. Marine. Inc.128

Bay Bridge Yachts.199

Emery Cove Marina.86

Lee Sails.58

Raytheon.52

Tradewind Instruments Ltd .... 21

Bay Riggers. Inc.27.46

Famous Foam Factory

.60

List Marine.82

Repo Hotline.204

UK Sailmakers of Sausalito .... 63

Bayside Dredging Co.71

Farallone Yacht Sales .18

Marin Yacht Sales.202

Rex Yacht Sales .199

Vallejo Marina.62

Baytronics.50

Farwell, Jane. Insurance

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Marina Palmira.84

Richmond Boat Works .... 59,61

Vancouver Yacht Co.87

BC Navigation Center.21

Feeney Wire Rope and Rigging . 62

Marine Engineering.70

Richmond Yacht Service.60

Voyager Marine.72

Bellhaven Marine

Royal Yachts, Inc.29

Weatherford BMW.76

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First New England Financial.... 71

Marine Machine .86

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Foolproof Marine.48

Marine Servicenter.70

‘Ruby’ for Charter.129

West Cal Yachts.200

Bilge Busters.151

Fraser Yachts.201

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San Francisco

West Coast Inflatables.64

Blue Dolphin

Gianola & Sons.47

Maritime Electronics.54

Benicia Marina

Bay Boat Brokers.*..199

West Marine Products.88,89

Yachts International .202

Glen Cove Marina.82

Marion Sailmakers.38,171

Boat Company, The.151

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Maritime Store, The.72

Boater’s Friend.60

Golden Glow Solar.129

Marks-Clark Insurance.80

Brisbane Marina.119

Golden State Diesel.129

Maryland National Bank.30

Boat Works.84

British Marine.66

Gorman, Bill,

Maskell Marine Services.128

San Francisco Marine Exchange . 84

YachtCare.87 Yacht Masters.128

San Francisco Bay

Westwind Precision

Yachting Center.36,37 San Francisco

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McGinnis Insurance.68

Sanford-Wood Boatyard

Cable Moore / Famet Marine . . 22

Harken Shoes..65

Metal Magic .68

Sausalito Yacht Sales.201

Yacht Registry.129

Cal-Coast Marine.119

Hatler' Don, Yachts.55

Milano Yachts.205

Scanmar Marine Products.68

Yacht: ‘Bondi Tram’.200

Cal-Marine Electronics.81

Haynes Sails.128

Monterey Bay Fiberglass.64

Schoonmaker Point Marina ... 129

Yacht: ‘Lobo'.199

California Custom Canvas

He(mut’s Marine Service.128

Moorings, The.15,25

Seabreeze Boat Yard .42

Yacht: Santana 35.

Helms Yacht & Ship.28

Nau*T*Kol.23

Seabreeze Ltd.118

Yacht: Seawolf ketch.196

.151

Hewett’s Marine.119

NCMA.24

Seafrost.151

Yacht: Sport Cruiser ‘Argo’ . . .84

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California Maritime Academy Foundation

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Capital Workshop Insurance ... 48

Hogin Sails.41

Nelson’s Marine .50.75

Seagull Marine.80,82

Yacht: 42’ Californian.199

Capitola Bay Marina.76

Holly Solar.62

NorCal Yachts.36

Seapower Marine.78

Yegen Marine.13

Carlsberg Beer.26

Hood Sailmakers.8,9

North Sails.19

Seaswell Yachts

Yukon Inflatables.56

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"FANFARE"

is for sale

“Fanfare" is a modern thirty square meter yacht designed and built in Sweden. She is slim, fast and beautiful. She is rigged for easy short handed sailing and her exquisite maneuverability makes her a pleasure to sail in all conditions. With a moderately sized rig and long lines she is especially suited to the San Francisco Bay waters. She is the importer's demonstrator with many custom features added to the basic layout of six bunks in three cabins. She will turn heads both on the water and at the dock. Because the importer is closing operations in San Francisco, “Fan¬ fare" will be sold for a considerable savings over her replacement value. If you are interested in a yacht that is fast, fun to sail, unique and is built to the highest standards, you must see "Fanfare". Call Swedish Yachts of North America at (415) 362-8715 / / today to find out more about "Fanfare".

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Overall length Waterline length Beam Draft Displacement Ballast Working sail area Genoa 1 Spinnaker Berths Engine Speed under power Fuel capacity Water capacity

41' 32'10" 8'2” 410" 7,938 lbs 3,241 lbs 404 sq ft 290 sq ft 806 sq ft 6 17 hp Volvo MD-7B 8 knots 13 U.S. gallons 31 U.S. gallons

Price $49,500

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Swedish Yachts of North America 325-D Yerba Buena Road, San Francisco, CA 94130

(415) 362-8715

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’84 ’71 ’71 ’85 ’67. ’74 ’77 ’83 ’85 ’84 ’70 ’79 ’79

o/b o/b o/b s.d. S.g. s.g. S.g. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d.

$5,500 8,900 9,500 44,000 24,900 33,900 44,500 57,500 115,000 118,000 110,000 135,000 89,000

308 Harbor Drive, Sausalito, CA 94965

(415) 331-0533

Power Boats 20' to 60’ I8K to 250K

Peninsula Office Marin Office

(415) 692-4169 Oyster Cove Marina (415) 331-2245 Schoonmaker Point Marina

Reduced to Sell

44 CHEOY LEE 1979. Radar,

46 MORGAN, 1975. Radar, AP,

Loran, AP, 8 sails. Anxious.

SSB, 8 sails, fridge and more. Serious boat. Serious seller.

$129,000. At our docks.

$119,500. At our docks.

1986

42' Californian (2) staterooms, (2) heads w/showers, (2) TVs w/remote, VCR, AM/FM cas¬ sette stereo system w/speakers thruout, complete galley w/electric oven/range, microwave,

refrigerator

w/freezer,

counter top blender, S/S sink w/garbage disposal,

U-shape dinette converts to

berth, overhead lighting, washer/dryer custom decorated w/deep pile carpeting & heavy pad¬ ding, drapes w/valance, mini blinds. (3) station heater/air cond, carpeted AFT deck w/rattan furniture, canvas enclosure, wet bar, ice maker, trash compactor, wing doors. Automatic pilot, upper/lower steering & controls, twin 350 hp fresh water cooled engines, 390 gal fuel, radar, dark walnut paneling throughout, low hours, many extras, excellent cond.

$234,000.

Was $250,000

(408)867*5225

SAM FRANCISCO BAY BOAT BROKERS SAUSAUTO, CA (415)332-8794 22’ 25' 25’ 26’ 27’ 27’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 31' 32’ 32' 36’ 36' 37’ 37' 37' 38’ 38’ 39’ 40’ 41’ 41' 42’ 45’ 51’

Santana. . Cal. US .

32’ 33' 35’ 35’ 40’ 40’

Scheel Sloop Gaff-head Cutter, “STORNC Garden Aux. Cruising Cutter

28’ 34’ 34’ 35’ 55’ 63’

Carver Riveria

Catalina Vega Sloop Cal 2 29 ... Pearson ....

' '

Islander .,.. Luders Yawl

Freya 39 . .... .2 available Cheoy Lee Midshipman Ketch “Sea Tiger” Ketch King’s Legend Cruiser1| Pearson 424 Ketch Lancer MS Morgan Ol 51

Fairlane

Yav

frm

frm „

2 available

Rafikt Cutter

Concordia

1969 . . . 1969. 1967.. . 1982 . . . 1967 . . . '71,78 . . 1972 . . . 1975 . . . 1978 . . 1980.. 1969 . . '76.‘77.. 1974 . . . 1980 . .. 1970... 1980.. 1968... 1972... •78.80. 1975 ■1972 . . . 1985 .. . 1980 . . . 1983. . . 1976 . . . 76.77.

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18,500.00 29,000.00 55,000.00 38,000.00 45,000.00 65,000.00

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49,500.00 19,500.00 18,000.00 . 5,500.00 115,000.00 . 90,000.00

"... THERE IS NOTHING — ABSOLUTELY NOTHING — HALF SO MUCH WORTH DOING AS SIMPLY_MESSjNG_ABOUTJN^BOATS/^

page 199

LOBO IS FOR SALE. This pristine Reichel/Pugh 42-footer (32.5 rating) is in perfect ready-to-win shape. All the extras and a ton of sails. $125,000. Call Roger Livingston at (206) 382-5500.

RACE or CRUISE

PETERSON 46 1981" "Compass Rose"

PEARSON 36

LANCER 44 PILOTHOUSE

1977 Ketch

1980, twin Turbo-Perkins *

These fine vessels are reasonably

4980 BROOKSIDE ROAD

priced!

(209) 473*3144

STOCKTON, CA 95207

inm-

FOR SALE! Frers 41 Custom

McConaghy Boats, Australia BUILDER: Kevlar and carbon fiber CONSTRUCTION: Full compliment of B&G with SatNav VHF ELECTRONIC: Triple spreader Zap Spar RIG: 1986-88 Sobstad and UK SAILS: 30.7 IOR: GUILDER’S COMMENTS: “Bondi Tram is one of the lightest and most rigid boats ever built.’ RACE RECORD: ■* Top Australian boat, 7th overall Admiral’s Cup Southern Cross | 4th overall Won every race in division PanAm Clipper Cup Big Boat Series (1984) 1st place, 4 of 5 first Big Boat Series (1986) 2nd as small boat in division Big Boat Series (1987) 5th after Penalty. Owner driven Sausalito Grand Prix First AsIfftWfimm: 1 $82,000 For more detailed information, please call: Scott Easom f- (415) 331-5917 For a fact sheet write to: Bondi Tram, P.O. Box 3923, San Rafael

S ■ ?! *«p!§ ' ■ sssms

SAUSALITO YACHT SALES SELECTED BROKERAGE

Sail on the Bay and Coast in the strong and lively ARIES 32 — we have a brand new Aries at our dock for immediate delivery. Give us a call for more information.

26’ 27’ 27’ 28’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 32’ 32’ 33’ 34’ 35’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 37’ 38’ 40’ 40’ 41 ’ 42’ 62’

RANGER 26, 1973, o/b.$8,500 CAL 2-27, 1976, diesel .$22,500/0ffers CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27, diesel.$23,500 CAL 28, Yanmar diesel .$12,000 BRISTOL 29, 1968, appealing design.$16,000 ERICSON 30, 1969, new main & roller furling jib.$19,000 ODYSSEY by Alberg.$25,000 ARIES 32, cruising gems — several available.from $38,000 MARINER 32, f/g, full keel.$42,500 RANGER 33, 1977, diesel, wheel.$34,000/0ffers CAL 34, 1976, Perkins diesel.$39,000 CUSTOM STEEL cutter.$55,000/Offers CHEOY LEE Luders, 1976, cruise/liveaboard.$49,500 ISLANDER ’78, popular Bay boat, dsl.$47,500 ISLANDER 36,’74, diesel, nicely maintained.Offers PEARSON 365,’76, lots of gear.$65,000/0ffers LANCER 36, 1982, New full battens main .$49,750 RANGER, diesel, very good shape.$55,000 BRISTOL, 1967, great shape.$42,500, CONCORDIA YAWL, 1957, cherry throughout.$65,000 PETERSON 40, 1985, racing equipped.$95,000 SEA TIGER, ketch, bluewater cruise and liveaboard.... $79,000 PEARSON 424, an outstanding cruising yacht .... Try $110,000 LAPWORTH, designed sloop, 1967,.$295,000

PLEASE CALL FOR ADDITIONAL POWER & SAIL LISTINGS

’79 ISLANDER FREEPORT 36. Perkins diesel. Design¬ ed by Bob Perry, the Freeport 36 performs well under sail and has the popular owner cabin amidships. Offers.

IF YOU HAVE A BOAT TO LIST, CALL SA USALITO YACHT SALES — BOATS ARE SELLING IN SAUSALITOU

100 BAY STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965

(415) 332-5000

cien cove

Sha.iet San Francisco Bay

YacHTsaLes

320 Harbor Drive Sausalito, California 94965

20 SANTANA

(415) 332-5311

’

★ Keoni Warinner ★ Carol Pratt ★ Dave Sheldon ★

’81. Fully race equipt. Pineapple sails, w/trailer. Immaculate.

$7,500 SAIL 23’ 24’ 24’ 24’ 24’ 24’ 25’ 25’ 26’ 26’ 26’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 28’ 32’

CHECK OUT OUR MANY FINE BOATS, AT BARGAIN PRICES! NO BOAT LISTED OVER $16,000

CORONADO’74 with trailer. C&C 1977 . CONTENDER 1966 . DEL REY. LAPWORTH’60, true classic plastic. PEARSON LARK ’68 . CATALINA’81 . CORONADO ’69, class boat. BALBOA ’73 . BARNEY NICOLS’52 . THUNDERBIRD ’64, class boat . BUCCANEER’77 . CATALINA’71, class boat. NEWPORT’77 . SANTANA ’69 . COLUMBIA ’70 . CLIPPER Ketch.

$6,500 11,000 6,000 6,000 8,500 8,500 13,950 9,500 7,800 8,000 5,500 16,000 11,500 16,000' 14,500 16,000 16,000

65' MacGREGOR '86. Fully equipped cruising

36’ LANCER SLOOP 1983. Bill Lee design, diesel, new dodger, roller furling and more. A fast, sharp looking boat, can be singlehanded.

version of this popular production yacht — Loran C, furling jib, stereo, hot water and much mor$.

Only $53,000.

Submit Offers.

43' WBSTSAIL ctr cockpil cutter, 1982. Kept on fresh water until late '87; continually profes¬ sionally maintained. Hood Stoway main, Seafurl jib & staysail.

Barient

praise enough!

winches.

Immqgulate isn't

Reduced to $139,500.

sistership

46' SPINDRIFT CUTTKR '83. Performance cruiser, standard and custom equipment reads like a “sailor's dream". Traditional warmth of a classic yacht, powerful modern cutter ready for sea or comfortable Bay sailing.

See In Sausalito.

CALIFORNIA YACHT BROKERS ASSOC. MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE • OVER 6,000 LISTINGS » WE CAN HELP WITH FINANCING »

(707) 552-4206 Off 780 Between Vallejo and Benicia Take Glen Cove Exit and Follow Signs to Glen Cove Marina 2024 Glen Cove Road Vallejo, CA 94591 page 201

38' LASER Bruce Farr designed and outfitted

45' NEW ZEALAND 45 '81. Designed by

for fast single or doublehanded sailing. Complete

Gary Mull, large aft owner stateroom (queensize

electronics.

bed) — stability, well over I0R minimum adding to

Owned

Anxious owner!

well-known

yachtsman.

comfort and seakindlines for cruising and offshore racing, extras galore. $158,000.

EDGEWATER YACHT SALES 1306 BRIDGEWAY SAUSALITO, CA 94965 (415) 332-2060

47' PORPOISE KETCH 1975 BANK REPO. SCHEDULED FOR AUCTION 8/10. MINIMUM BID $50,000 INSPECT AT OUR DOCKS.

“BIG MAC” McINTOSH 47 Cutter, 1986. Fast cruising in luxury. Owners double with stall shower aft, guest double forward with head. Loaded — Offered at $250,000.

CAL 34 LOADED WITH QUALITY GEAR — INCLUDING LORAN, BARIENT WINCHES SPIN¬ NAKER, ROLLER FURLING JIB AND AVON. ASKING $22,000.

CORONADO 35 DIESEL AUXILIARY, NEW HOOD SAILS, ROOMY INTERIOR, IDEAL LIVEABOARD. MOTIVATED SELLER WANTS OFFERS.

“CELESTIAL”

CELESTIAL 48 Center Cockpit Cruising Ketch. 1985 model ■ with owners queen aft, guest double forward, large saloon and galley with oversized refrig/freezer. List 165Kplus. Dealer demo at $142,500.

JEANNEAU 34'

ERICSON 34'

PEARSON 303

GULFSTAR 47'

THIS AND MANY MORE LISTINGS

>SAIL<^2nd motor yachts 22' 22' 25' 27' 303' 34' 34'

CATALINA COLUMBIA 0'DAY NEWPORT PEARSON JEANNEAU Sunrise PEARSON

5,000 $3,900 16,900 16,500 62,000 75,000 75,500

41' 41' 44' 45' 47'

MORGAN 0/1 85,000 NEWPORT 79,000 PETERSON Cutter 109,000 JEANNEAU Sun Kiss 185,000 GULFSTAR Sailmaster 185,000 49' CT Ketch 169,000 64' RHODES Stl M/S 205,000 69' GAFF RIGGED Cttr 150,000

OCEANS VII BLUEWATER 47 Center Cockpit Cruising Ketch. Built 1978 with owners queen aft & guest double forward. Two heads, 2 showers, new ’88 aluminum spars, boat shows excellent maintenance. Asking $120,000.

Lowrie Yacht Harbor 40 Point San Pedro Road San Rafael, CA 94901

We Need Upscale Sail Listings!

Blue Dolphin International YACHTS

1120 BALLENA BLVD. ALAMEDA, CA 94501

(415) 454-7595

(415) 865-5353 INC

FAX# 415 5230440

Bus.

1070 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 100 Alameda, CA 94501

* IN OUR MARINA

Bill QORMAN YACHTS

MARINER 32

$42,000

(415) 865-6151 Sales: Tom Plesha Jack Meagher

CATALINA 30

COLUMBIA 52'

$125,000

CHEOY LEE 44

Wheel, Diesel

SEA STAR 46 PH

OCEANIC 43 PH

$149,500

$128,500

Wheel, Diesel

$110,000

Dual Wheel, Diesel

BAY/COASTAL CRUISERS

$24,500

Tiller, Diesel

Wheel, Diesel

POWER BOATS

LIVE ABOARD/CRUISERS 44.000

31'M0NSUN. 35'NIAGARA MKI 35'ERICSON .

37,500

36'ISLANDER .... 36' PEARSON 365

57,500

35' CHRIS CRAFT

79,500 69,500 59,950

43’RON HOLLAND 134.300 44' PETERSON. 130,000 45 JEANNEAU . 189,000 45 LANCER 125.000

65,000

48''CHEOY LEEkch. 159,000

29,950

36' SEA HORSE

79,500

37'CSC .

30' CAL 9.2. > | . 30' HUNTER. v ★

39,500 30.000

36'STEPHENS

49,500

37' HUNTER. 37' GULFSTAR

... -A . . *

30' PEARSON 303 .... . ★ 30' RANGER. 30'SANTANA 30-30 .. . ★

39,950

37' EGG HARBOR 38' BAYLINER 3870

31,950

42' GRAND BANKS

38' C&C LANDFALL 38'ERICSON .

► *. it

39,500

43' PRESIDENT SF

39' LANCER MS

-. ♦ ★

39' CAL II. 40' CHALLENGER .

75,000 72,000

73,900

99,500 89,500

27' COLUMBIA 8.7 27' ERICSON 29' ERICSON

. *

23.500 19,750 27,500

29' RANGER 30' PEARSON

.. .

30' CAL 3-30

. ♦ ★ ..

19,800 24,950

Mil 49,000 46.500 33' CS. 34,500 33' RANGER. 33,900 33'COLUMBIA. ★ 30' CS

23' UNIFLITE F8. -★ 28' BERTRAM 30'SEA RAY fly bridge . ★ 32' EAGLE PH

48' PACEMAKER

★

17,900

v it

63,500 109,400

. « ,

155,000 185,000

138,000

►

40' ENDEAVOUR 41' KING LEGEND

page 203 /

★

. .

47.000 79.500

99,800 *54,000 77,000 74,500 79,000

TRADITIONAL RESIGNS 30' CAPE DORY kch . .

32'OFFSHOREkch ...

■ *

32' WESTSAIt. 36' CHEOY LEE Luders . 37' RAFIKI.

34,950 19,995 54,950

. *

39'FREYA . ♦ . »

59,000 78,500 79,500

FAREWELL The last of the Robert Perry designed Union 36’s. We must sell the last two Union 36’s. Com¬ plete with spars and rigging, these two fine bluewater yachts are perfect for your world cruise. These are new yachts, solidly built, ready for a. rare opportunity purchase. Don’t buy anything until you’ve looked at these!! TAKING OFFERS!! L.O.A.36*3” BEAM.11*4” BALLAST . . . 7,800 lbs cast iron in t'/g BERTHS.7 people CUTTER

L.W.L.32’ DISPL.22,000 lbs FUEL.100 gals black iron t'/g covered WATER.140 gals stainless steel

INIEGRE

Select Sail

Select Power

Merit 25, trlr, race equipt $13,-950 Hunter 32, clean, diesel Offers Union 32, cutter, dsl Asking 48,500 Union 36, cutter, as new 76,500

31’Trawler (2) from 2^950 34’ Trawler, 1983, fully equipt 67,500 Other fine selections

1155 EMBARCADERO OAKLAND, CA 94606

We have limited FREE berth space We will maintain your yacht for sale

(415) 465-6060

*Lampe &Martir^ (415) 654-7272 cYachts,Ltd„. Size Manufacturer

Year

16.5 18' 22' 22' 25' 38' 41' 42'

Ski Tique Malibu Skier Bayliner Mako Farallon Bayliner Chris Craft Chien Wha

'76 '86 '87 '81 '80 '88 '83 '84

27' 28'

Catalina Columbia

'75 '63

30' 30' 40'

C&C Newport C&C

72 76 '81

Description / Comments POWER BOATS Competition ski boat/trlr. Ford 289 OMC, V-6, cuddy cabin, trlr Cobra, cuddy cabin, OMC V-8 i/o 150HP o/b, new cond., no trlr Fish boat, Irg open ckpt, Volvo dsl 3870 Twin 175 dsl 410 Commander twin 454 cu, gas Golden Star, full elec, radar SAIL BOATS Sloop, Atomic 4, depth, sails Beautiful cond. Atomic 4 gas i/b, sails Tiller steering, 5 sails, clean, gas 6 sails, elect, dodger, EPRIB Very nicely equipt/maintained

Value

High Bid

6,700 4,800 12,500 6,800 10,000 6,000 21,000 18,200 25,000 11,000 126,000 126,000 48,000 140,000 108,000 11,000

8,100

17,000 36,200 27,500 166,000

5,200 17,250 18,500 66,000

1983 39' FRERS

by DUFOUR. LOADED, PERKINS DSL, REFRIG., B&G, WINDLASS, VERY NICE. ASKING $99,500.

OWNER WANTS HER SOLD!!

SOON TO Bi RELEASED FOR SALE:

SELECTED BROKERAGE

18' Seaswirl, '85 25'Bayliner,'83 33'Hunter,'76 Bank advises . . . three more small power boats all on trailers to be released soon. Unless otherwise noted, qll boats are located in our storage yard, or at our docks at Mariner Square in Alomeda — CALL IF YOU NEED DIRECTIONS TO OUR OFFICE - (415) 523-8502

44' 38' 37' 37' 36' 32' 30'

PtE«£ cau to obtain the latest releases and current bids for our power. SAIL, & HOUSEBOAT LISTINGS. TO BE PUT ONTO OUR MONTHtY MAILING LIST, COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW & SEND TO

REPO HOTLINE, 2415 Mariner Square Dr., Alomeda, CA 94501 Name.- _;_—__ Address: ____-

Price range

Type: (Fish/Ski, Cruise/Race, etc.)_____

PETERSON, 77, very nice . . CATALINA, '84 . EXPRESS, '84, loaded. O'DAY, 79, center cockpit . ISLANDER . 2 to choose from C&C,'80 . MORGAN MKII.

$134,900 59,500 99,500 53,000 47,000 44,000 26,000

We draw from an extensive network of listings from all over the country. Let us help you locate your next yacht.

Phone: (h) {_*_)_.. .. (w) (_)__ I am interested in: Power O Sail □ length: (20'-25', 25'-30', etc.)

WESTS AIL 32, 1981. A TRUE CRUISER'S YACHT. RADAR, AUTOPILOT, VERY HIGH QUALITY RIGGING. $59,000.

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distinctive NEW & PRE-OWNED CRUISING YACHTS

YOUR CRUISING HEADQUARTERS

Cruising Consultants for Coastal and Off-shore people.

We will

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COASTAL CRUISERS 25' 27' 28' 29' 30' 30' 30"

Pac. Seacraft. . 16,000 Ericson. .21,300 Islander . .30,000 Ranger. .21,900 Islander Mk II.... .22,900 Cal 2-30. .22,000 Catalina. .27,000

27' 30' 31' 31' 32' 32' 33' 33' 33' 35' 36' 37'

Nor'Sea. ..49,000 Fisher....50,000 Monsun. ..47,000 Off Shore 31. ..34,000 Challenger. ..39,500 Atkins. ..59,500 Freedom . .. 69,000 Freedom. ..70,000 Vanguard. .. 23,000 Rafiki. .. 58,000 Pearson Ketch.. ..65,000 Rafiki 37. ..79,500

32' * 32' 33' 34' * 35' * 35 * 36'

Ericson. . 31,900 Alden M/Sailor... . 49,500 Yamaha. . 34,000 Hunter 34...49,500 Bristol 3 From... .59,000 Coronado . . 48,000 Watkins. . 65,500

Transpac 49 Mk. II a proven cruising ktch fully equipped and ready to leave. Full roller furling main, mizzen and jib. This spacious and seakindly vessel has a 3 KW generator, SatNav, Autopilot, SSB, Dink w/OB, Raft, etc. There is nothing to add, just you and your ( gear. $189,000

OFFSHORE CRUISERS 38' Alajuela.... 80,000 * 39' Cal. .. 49,500 * 38' Han Christen. ..99,500 * 40' Stevens 40. 130,000 41' Kings Legand. ..89,500 * 41' Cheoy Lee . .. 89,500 45' Explorer. 110,000 * 46* Formosa 46....99,500 47' Cheoy Lee . .. 98,500 47' Cheoy Lee. 115,000 * 49' Transpac MK II... 189,000

CLASSIC CRUISERS 23' Bear #1.9,500 33' Inter.1 Design.14,000

The Cheoy Lee Alden Motorsailor is the ultimate of sailing A full inside steering station and flush deck design provide ing areas for all your boating activities. Here is the best of worlds.,.designed by John Aiden. $

60' Pilot Ctr. 95,000 45' Spaulding Cstm... 99,000

26’ C & C 26.25,000 27' C & C 27.23,500 30' C & C 1/2 Ton. 23,000

35’ 36' 38' 40'

comfort large liv¬ both 49,500

C & C 35 MK II..49,500 C & C 36.62,500 C&C.76,500 C & C.. 120,000

HIGH PERFORMANCE 24' 27' 30' 31' 33'

Nightingale.9,500 Contest .15,000 P/J 1/2 Ton.28,950 Peterson 1/2T. 33,500 Tartan 10.22,000

22' 22' 23' 25' 25' 25' 25' 25' 25' 26'

Columbia.4,900 Santana.5,250 Ranger.9,500 Bahama.9,800 Cal 2-25 2 Fr.18,500 U.S. 25.10,500 Catalina.14,900 Ericson. 13,500 O-Day 25.10,000 Dawson 26.8,500

21* 30' 30' 35'

FiberForm. 11,500 Chris Cavalier.... 16,000 Chris Connie.22,500 Chris Craft. 55,950

34' 36' 38' 40' 55'

Dash 34.38,500 Peterson.62,500 Soderberg.55,000 Santa Cruz.113,500 Swede 55. 99,500

SAN FRANCISCO BAY CRUISERS 26' 26' 27' 27' 27' 27' 28' 29' 30' 30'

A Cheoy Lee Off Shore 31 that is a 10. Professionally maintained with no expense spared tp keep her perfect. She is as pretty to look at as she is sweet to sail. A modified Herreshoff design with a long and stable lateral plane keel, ketch rigged and diesel engine $ 34,000

Ericson. ..6,500 Pearson . .. 9,000 Cal 2-27. 16.500 Cal 2-27. 19.500 15,000 Catalina 2 Fr... Sun 27. 17,000 Newport . 16,000 Ericson. 25,700 Islander Mkll.28,000 Pearson 30.26,800

POWER BOATS * * * *

36' 37' 38' 40'

Trojan 36 S.F. 36,500 Hunter Cruiser ...17,000 PT 38. 88,500 Owens Tahitian.... 34,975

Quality Listings for boats 35' and up are needed to satisfy our customers for cruising boats ._

i The Rafiki 37 a blue wafer cruiser designed by Stan Huntingford for long range cruising in saftcy and comfort A deep seakindly hull offer stability and storage. Aries vane, Trimble Loran C, hard dingy, storm sails and ground tackle. She is ready $ 79,500

Star indicates vessel at our docks

ILANO s page 205

FORTMAN MARINA • (415) 523-7474 1535 BUENA VISTA AVE. • ALAMEDA

KERM1T PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE

fey bmS N

San Rafael Yacht Harbor 557 Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael. CA 94901

(415) 456-1860

32' MAXI 95 SWEDISH BUILT, Volvo diesel. Comfortable interior, aft cabin. Wheel steering. Asking $29,500

37' FREEMAN ENGLISH KETCH.

Pitch pine

28' VIKING

YUGOSLAVIAN SLOOP. 22 hp

on oak, copper sheathed bottom, new diesel '87. Just sailed in from England. Well equipped for

i/b, teak decks, draws only 24" with board up.

world cruising. Asking $59,500.

$9,900. Owner anxious.

Has been well maintained. Price reduced to

LAFITTE 44 CUTTER. Perry designed bluewater cruiser. Well equipped, hydraulic and

MOD. HERRESHOFF 30 KETCHES. Exclnt, well proven cruisers, or perfect for around

rod rigging. Bright teak decks, extremely com¬ fortable liveaboard/cruiser. $139,000.

the Bay. We have 3 to choose from — come & compare! Prices new start at $16,450.

32' TUMLAREN CLASS SLOOP (Large version.) Diesel. Fast and beautiful, a real eye catcher.

CAL 20

Two sets of new racing sails, very clean. Ready to go! $2,900.

Asking $19,000

ORIGINAL H-28 KETCH. Probably the most famous L. Francis Herreshoff design. I/B, just rebuilt, 2 good suits of sails, autopilot, full cover, dinghy. Excellent price: $12,90$.

30' TAHITI

one of the top accumulators of cruising miles.

34' CAL Popular design with roomy layout. A good liveaboard at an affordable price. Asking

25' FOLKBOAT Traditional class boat maintained in bristol fashion. Varnished hull. Full

Price reduced to $ 19,900/Offers.

$24,000.

boat cover. Asking $8,500.

38'

KETCH. This proven design is

HUNTER

CABIN

CRUISER.

Twin

Chrysler Furys. Extremely spacious, large shower. Excellent liveaboard. Asking $15,000.

28’ 5TOUTFELLA SLOOP. 30hp i/b, 6 bags sails including spinnaker. Excellent Bay per¬ former

with

$8,900.

very

pleasing

lines.

Asking

1928 34' LABRUZZI MOTOR YACHT. Port Orford cedar. 75 hp dsl. Well loved & main¬ tained in covered berth. Asking $41,000.

OVER 100 ADDITIONAL LISTINGS • SLIPS AVAILABLE • CALL OR VISIT OUR SALES DOCK TODAY'

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New Listings

’84 BALTIC 42DP

’81 BALTIC 37

Special yacht, launched January 1984. Teak decks elec¬ tric anchor windlass, Reckmann racing/furling, all self¬ tailing winches. Navtec 2-way hydraulic panel, dodger, ockpit tables, custom galley, mechanical and AC refri¬ geration, extra tanks, Brookes and Gatehouse instru¬ ments, RDF, VHF, Loran C, NECO autotpilot plus much more — including five sails! Asking $249,000.

Hull number 41, one of the last Baltic 37’s built. Volvo engine with V-drive, teak decks, hot and cold pressure water with shower, Brookes & Gatehouse instruments, ten North sails. Now only $94,500.

’81 C&C LANDFALL 38

’85 OFFSHORE 48 YACHT FISHER

“Bonny Doon”

“7 No Trump”

Meticulously maintained cruising yacht loaded with gear! Roller furling genoa, full batten main, Navtec rod rigging, Barient self-tailing winches, hot and cold presshore water with shower, refrigeration 110v share power, microwave. Only $74,950.

The standards of superb craftsmanship and spacious accomodations are beautifully executed in this William Crealock design. The Offshore power yachts are excel¬ lent sea boats that are equally pleasant at 12 knots or 20. Call Chris Boome.

“Golden Em”

“Caviar II”

Baltic Yachts West, Inc. is the West Coasts Exclusive Agent for Baltic Yachts ROBERTO FABBRI

475 gate 5 road, suite 119 SAUSALITO, CA 94965

(415) 332-2056 page 207 /

CHRIS BOOME

San Francisco’s Yacht Broker Since 1969

SAIL BOATS 26' RANGER 26' S-2 7.9 27' MULL CUSTOM 27' ERICSON 28' LASER 29' CAL 29' ERICSON 30' ISLANDER MKII 30' CARTER 30' CAL 3 30 30 OLSON 30' CAL 9.2 31' CHEOYLEE 33' HUNTER 33' TARTAN TEN 33' WYLIE 33' RODGERS 3/4 TON 34' WYLIE 34' CUSTOM SLOOP 34' db2 35' HINCKLEY PILOT 35' C&C 35' SANTANA 35' ERICSON 36' ISLANDER 36' PEARSON 36' ISLANDER FREEPORT 37' RANGER 38' FARALLON CLIPR 38' C&C LANDFALL 38' FARR 39' FREYA 39' WEST SAIL CUTTER 40' CHALLENGER 40' COLD MOLDED SLOOP 40' NORDIC 40' PEARSON 40' STEVENS CSTM CTTR 40' SANTA CRUZ 41' NEWPORT 41' PETERSON RACE SLP 41' FORMOSA 42' PORPOISE KETCH 42' DUBOIS 43' C&C 44' PETERSON 44' PETERSON 44' CT 44 CUTTER 45' LANCER 46' MOTORSAILER 47' S&S CSTM SLOOP 47' VAGABOND 47' S&S CSTM SLOOP 48' PH KETCH M/S 50' GULFSTAR 50' SANTA CRUZ 51' MORGAN Ol KETCH 62' CRUISING CUTTER 62' KETCH M/S 108' ISLAND TRADER 25' 27' 27' 28' 30' 33' 34' 34' 37' 38' 38' 40' 41' 42' 42' 42' 43' 44' 48' 5V 53' 55' 57' 61' 78'

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POWER BOATS FARALLON OFFSHORE WHALER SEA RAY BERTRAM FLYBRIDGE CLASSIC FAIRCHILD CHRIS CRAFT CHIN WHATRAWLER CHB TRAWLER TOLLYCRAFT MATTHEWS CLASSIC MY BERTRAM RAISED DECK MY HATTERAS MY PRESIDENT SF SUNDECK MY UNIFLITE HATTERAS MY GULFSTAR NORDIC CONCORDE MY HATTERAS STEPHENS CRUISER DAYTONA YF HATTERAS MY MONK * AT OUR DOCKS

S9.500 23.000 11.500 17.000 34,500 25.950 21.000 21.500 33.000 23,900 16,000 29,000 29.000 26,000 24.000 55.000 39,500 48.500 38.000 75.000 38,000 75,000 55,000 30.000 57,500 49,000 95.000 45.000 35,000 76.500 76.500 79.500 79,900 84,500 79,500 139,500 70,000 154,500 110.000 69,000 99,950 67.500 110.000 79.500 78.000 125,000 110.000 108.000 125.000 150.000 59,500 125,000 175,000 250.000 110.000 169,000 179,000 295.000 349.000 1.150.000 35,000 57.500 38.000 43,000 44.750 49,500 48.000 49.500 138.500 58,500 195.000 79.000 69,000 160.000 165.000 170.000 198.500 172.500 329.000 375,000 535,000 125.000 295.000 750.000 1,750,000

S-2 7.9 26’. Well-equipped for cruising or racing. Retractable keel with trailer. Make us an offer!

55’ CRUISING KETCH. Meticulous¬ ly maintained. Comfortable acco¬ modations. Excellent performing yacht. Very attractive price.

NORTH STAR 40. Superb condi¬ tion. Ideal liveaboard with aft cabin. Easily sailed by two. Ex¬ cellent value at $77,900.

’Maw***!

34* PETERSON. Versatile, strong and easy to handle. Excellent racer or cruiser. Very good inven¬ tory. Realistically priced.

OLYMPIC 47’. Beautiful offshore cruiser with 3 private cabins. Lovely teak interior with ample headroom. 4 must see at $149,500.

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FOOT OF LAGUNA STREET • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94123 • PHONE (415) 567-8880